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EDWIN ARNOLD 

BIRTHDAY BOOK 



Coinpiied from the ivorks o/ Edwin Arnold, with new and 
additional Poems written expressly therefor 



EDITED BV 

KATHERINE LILIAN ARNOLD AND 

CONSTANCE ARNOLD 

{His daughters) 







t JAN 28 JS85/ 

B O S T 0>KC Wa sh^ 
D. LOTHROP AND COMPANY 

FRANKLIN AND HAWLEV STREETS 






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Copyright by 

D. LOTHROP AND COMPANY 

1884 



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PREFACE. 

The preparation of this Volume has been a "labour 
of love " for its Editors, the daughters of the Poet, 
from whose works the extracts which it contains are 
taken. Some of these have been derived from poems, 
as yet, unpublished, and the introductory verses to 
each month were specially written for our "Birthday 
Book." The fewest words are best to introduce a 
volume so prepared ; in compiling which we have ex- 
perienced such pride and pleasure as cannot, of course, 
be wholly imparted even to the most admiring read- 
ers, in both ' Hemispheres, of the " Light of Asia." 
But, since melodious calendars of the kind are now 
a fashion, we believe that very many in America and 
at home will welcome a year-book of quotations, 
thus gleaned, and from so rich a field of imagina- 
tion and intellect. 

THE EDITORS. 

London, Atigust, 1884. 



EDWIN ARNOLD BIRTHDAY BOOK. 

[Extract from letter of Mr. Ediviu Arnold to his son, 
Air. Julian B. Arnold, by arrangement zvit/i zu/iojn this 
book is published by D. Lothrop q^ Co.] 

" In regard to the Birthday Book which you tell me you 
are preparing for publication in America, I. hereby trans- 
fer to you all such rights as I possess, for its production 
and copyright, and give you free and complete authority 
in the matter." 

"Edwin Arnold." 

London, /uly, 1884. 



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NEW YEAR. 

Over town and hamlet ringing, let the merry song go 

singing 
Welcome to the Young Year's beauty, and the blessed 

gifts she brings : 
Greet her for the apple-blossoms wreathed about her 

budding bosoms. 
Love her for the sunny days her barlej^-braided hair 

foretells, 
Bless her for the pleasant plenty, — grape and grain 

that God hath sent ye ; 
Laud her ! though we live to lose her in the snow, 

and chime the bells. 



JANUARY. 

Which of the merry months shall I praise ? 

Meadow birds, say ! 
Shall the April nights, or the autumn days, 

Have i)lace in my lay ? 
" Oh the sun of the summer is golden and strong, 
'• And the flowers of the summer shine fairly and long, 
" Sing thou to the summer the first of thy song, 

" As we sing on the spray." 

No ! no ! 

Meadow birds, no! 
Mine is the month that is born in the snow. 



May hath the bud, and the bee, and the dove, 
And the sky of the summer is bluest above, 
But the year's first month, she bringeth my love, 
And her bridal-day! 
Say, is it wrong 
To keep crown and song 
For the month that leadeth my lady along.'* 
11 



January ist. 

In the palace grounds 
An alcove on a garden gives, and there 
A tiny thing — forgot in the general fear, 
Lulled in the flower-sweet dreams of infancy, 
Bathed with soft sunlight falling brokenly 
Through leaf and lattice — was that moment waking 
A little lovely maid, most dear and taking. 
- '* The Epic of the Lion,'' from the French of Victor Hugo. 



January 2d. 

Beside him in the court 
Stood Dame Adalieta; comely she. 
And of her port as stately, and as sweet 
As if the braided gold about her brows 
Had been a crown. 

— King Sale I din . 

All existence is not equal, and all living is not life. 
— The Book of Good Counsels. 
12 



January ist. 



January 2do 



13 



January 3d. 

"Set thine own lamp on high, 
*' To shine at evening through the dark'Jing sky, 
" And I will be Love's ship — my pilot-star 
" That beam." 

— Hero and Leander. 

Excellent heart ! learned unknowingly, 
As the dove is which flieth home by love. 

— The Lii^kf of Asia. 



January 4th. 

Oh ! ever, when the happy laugh is dumb. 
All the joy gone, and all the anguish come — 
When strong adversity and subtle pain 
Wring the sad soul and rack the throbbing brain — 
When friend once faithful, hearts once all our own 
Leave us to weep, to bleed and die alone — 
The only calm, the only comfort heard. 
Comes in the comfort of a woman's word. 

— The Feast of Belshazzar. 
14 



January 3d. 



January 4Lh. 



15 



January 5th. 

Manifold tracks lead to yon sister-peaks 

Around whose snows the gilded clouds are curled ; 

By steep or gentle slopes the climber comes 
Where breaks that other world. 

Strong limbs may dare the rugged road which storms, 
Soaring and perilous, the mountain's breast ; 

The weak must wind from slower ledge to ledge 
With many a place of rest. 

— The Light of Asia, 



January 6th. 

Wonderful Life ! 
So sad with partings, and so sweet with meetings. 
Made up of wild farewells, and wilder greetings; 
Oh word, with wonder rife ! 

— Dreatn-Land. 

What I know that will I answer. Ask ! 

— The Enchanted Lake. 
16 



January 5 th. 



January 6th. 



17 



January yth. 

Ah! The gleaming, glancing arrows of a lovely woman' 

CO eye 

^ Feathered with her jetty lashes, perilous thev pass us by. 

Pi 

J — T/w Book of Good Coiuisels. 

o 
(J 

r^ The kingdom that I crave 

g Is more than many realms — and all things pass 

o 

^ To change and death. 

— The Light of Asia. 



January 8th. 

Oh, you know ! 
His hair danced back from off his brow, like sprays 
Of bright amaracus, when the west winds blow, 
And all his neck, flushed with the heat of the games, 
Shone as Ihou shinest. Moon ! but rosier pearl ! 

— From Theocritus. 

Night listened in the glens 
And noon upon the mountains. 

— The Light of Asia. 
38 



January 7th. 



January 8th 



19 



January 9th. 

Naught call I now to mind he said or did, 
That was not rightly said or justly done. 
No idle words he spake, even in free speech 
Patient and lordly ; generous to bestow 
Beyond all givers ; scorning to be base 
Yea, even in secret. 

— Nala and Damayanti. 



January loth. 

— then in daring mood 
Sidelong he glanced and murmured half a word, 
And checked it to a sigh, itself half heard : 
Glance, word, and sigh so tender-timid were, 
Their silent speaking could not anger her; 
Nay, but it pleased ! that gentle stratagem 
To tell the love which burned so plain in him. 

— Hero and Leander. 
20 



January 9th. 



January loth. 



ai 



January nth. 

Self, who in the Universe 
As in a mirror sees her fond face shown, 
And crying " I " would have the world say " I," 
And all things perish so if she endure. 

— The Light of Asia. 

In entertaining strangers a man may add to his friends. 
— The Book of Good Counsels. 



January 12th. 

Let no man miss to render reverence 

To those who lend him life, whereby come means 

To live and die no more. 

— The Light of Asia. 

— as all the spring runs down 
Into a lake, from all its hanging hills. 
The clash and glitter of a hundred streams. 

— King Saladin. 



January iiih. 



January i2thc 



23 



.^^ January 13th. 

00 

s Glory and praise to those sweet lamps of earth, 

o The nine fair daughters of Almighty Jove, 

X 

«^w The healing secrets of their songs forego 

" < Despair ; and when we tremble at the waves 

o '^ 

fa'^ On life's wild sea of murk incertitude, 

if, H 

s S Their gentle touch upon the helm is pressed, 

'^^ Their hand points out the beacon star of good, 

^ 5 Where we shall make our harbor, and have rest. 

-* o — /^rom Theocritus. 



-^ January 14th. 

d 

2" " I am as one who came 

to 

« Where, among roses, one bush, all aflame 

K By fragrant crimson blossoms, charged the air 

u With loveliness and perfume past compare. 

< Then had I thought to load my skirt with roses, 

m But ah ! the scent so rich, so heavenly, comes ; 

u 

2 I let the border of my mantle fall — 

_^ The roses slipped ! I bring ye none at all." 

§ — The Pearls of the Faith. 

« 24 



January 13th. 



Januarv' 14th. 



•rt-y. 
K 



January 15th. 

The glossy golden lilies of the land 
Lost lustre in her hair; and that she owned 
The noble Norman eye — the violet eye 
Almost — so far and fine its lashes drooped, 
Darkened to purple. 

— Vernier. 

Honour him for thine own honour — better is he than the 
best. 

— T/ie Book of Good Counsels, 



January i6th. 

A gentle wife, a noble friend she walks, 
Nor ever with the gossipmongers talks; 
Such women sometimes Zeus to mortals gives, 
The glory and the solace of their lives. 

— From Simotiides of Amorgos. 

Who wins his throne and treasures from a prince, 
Must stand the hazard of the counter-cast. 

— Nala and Damayanti. 
26 



January 15111. 



January 16th, 



2r 



January 17th. 

Some new face, some winsome playmate, 

With her hair ulitied, 
And the blossoms tangled in it, 

Woos him to her side. 
Fair ? yes, yes ! the rippled shadow 

Of that midnight hair 
Shows above ber brow — as clouds do 

O'er the moon — most fair. 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 



January i8th. 

Better live and love and rue it, 
Than not live and love. 



— Griselda. 



He who walks low paths along 
Still keeping to the way, shall come 
Sooner and safer to his home 
Than the proud wanderer on the hill. 

— The Etichanted Lake. 
28 



January 17 th. 



January iSthc 



29 



January 19th. 

— one even as I, 

Who ache not, lack not, grieve not, save with griefs 

Which are not mine, except as I am man; — 

If such a one, having so much to give. 

Gave all, laying it down for love of men, 

And thenceforth spent himself to search for truth, 

Wringing the secret of deliverance forth, 

Whether it lurk in hells or hide in heavens, 

Or hover, unrevealed, nigh unto all : 

Surely at last, far off, sometime, somewhere, 

The veil would lift for his deep-searching eyes, 

The road would open for his painful feet. 

— The Light of Asia. 

January 20th. 

Never a jot cares my pretty jade for their anger. 

Sometimes she flings a smile to one, and frowns to his fel- 
low. 

Sometimes she softens to t'other — and there they stand in 
the beechwood, 

Laughed at, but mad with love — half-teased, half-pleased 
at the wanton. —From Theocritus. 

The broad blue spangled hangings of the sky. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 
30 



January 19th. 



January 20th, 



31. 



January 21st. 

The green waves leap 
At the cliff's white feet 
On the shore of the land of the free : — 
Fair music they make together, 

The cliff and the climbing foam; 
And it sounds in the bright blue weather, 
Like the wanderer's welcome home. 

— The Wreck of the Northern Belle. 



January 22d. 

" Sweet 1 for thy love," he cried, " the sea I'd cleave, 

" Though foam were fire, and waves with flame did heave, 

" I fear not billows if they bear to thee ; 

" Nor tremble at the hissing of the sea ! 

" And I will come — " 

— Hero and Leander. 

Plays the round of folly rarely. 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 
32 



January 21st. 



January 22d. 



January 23d. 

Love once among the roses 
Perceived a bee reposing, 
And wondered what the beast was 
And touched it, so it stung him. 
* * * * But Cythera 
Said laughing, " Ah, my baby, 
If bees' stings hurt so sorely, 
Bethink thee what the smart is 
Of those, Love, that thou piercest." 

— From Anacron, 



January 24th, 

Love the inmate, not the room ; 

The wearer, not the garb ; the plume 

Of the falcon, not the bars 

Which kept him from the splendid stars. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 

Nay, he was ever quick at numbers,'^ 'tis his vocation. 

■■ — Griselda. 
34 



January 23d. 



January 24th. 



35 



January 25th. 

To him the moon's icy-chill silver 

Is a sun at midday ; 
The fever he burns with is deeper 
Than starlight can stay : 
g g Like one who falls stricken by arrows, 

With the color departed 
From all but his red wounds, so lies 
Thy love, bleeding-hearted. 

— The Indian Song of Songs, 



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.^^ January 26th. 

go — whose diadem 

P-i 

y'Q" Was set with peopled stars; wherefrom arose 

^ o Lauds to the glory of God, filling the blue 

;^ < With lovely music, as rose-gardens fill 

w I A land with essences ; and young stars, shaking 

o"!^ Tresses of lovely light, gathered and grew 

Q s Under his mighty plumes, departing still 

^ 9 . . . 

^^ Like ships with crews and treasure, voyage-making. 

^ — T/ie Pearls of the Faith. 

^ 36 



January 25th. 



January 26th. 



37 



January 27th. 

Faith that will not fade or waver, 

Love that hath no end, 
Jewels fair for thee to wear, love, 

And for me to send. 

— The Caske 

I gaze upon thy beauty, and my fear 
Passes as clouds do, when the moon shines clear. 
— The Indian Song of Songs 



January 28th. 

Peace and fortune thou wilt bring 
To thy city, to thy country ! 

— Nala and Damayanti 

And still it glideth silently and slow, 
And still beneath the spectral letters grow — 
Now the scroll endeth — now the seal is set — 
The hand is gone — the record tarries yet. 

— The Feast of Relshazzar. 

38 



January 27th. 



January 28thc 



^ January 29th. 

00 

§ Longing Leander, on the black waves' crest, 

a. 

I Eying the light that led to Hero's breast ; 

.^r-. Kind light — Love's jewel ! — which the mighty Jove" 

^'i Might well have taken to the orbs above, 

2 - And set it shining in the spangled sky 

^ « To be Love's star of all Heaven's company. 

i . — ^ero and Leander 



True friends counsel well. 
'^< — The Book of Good Counseh 



is 



January 30th. 

Thou teachest them who teach, 

Wiser than wisdom is thy simple lore. 

Be thou content to know not, knowing thus 

Thy way of right and duty : grow, thou flower I 

With thy sweet kind in peaceful shade — the light 

>g Of Truth's high noon is not for tender leaves. 

< 

^- z — The Lis'ht of Asia 

%•:> The guest is lord of all. 

^ — The Book of Good Counseh 

I 40 



>^^ 



January 29th. 



January 30th 



41 



January 31st. 

Swiftly did the doves fly, 
Swiftly they brought thee, waving plumes of wonder ■ — 
Waving their pale plumes all across the ether, 

All down the azure ! 

— From Sappho. 

Each beloved object born 
Sets within the heart a thorn, 
Bleeding, when they be uptorn. 

— The Book of Good Counsels, 



42 



jANUiXRY 31st. 



43 



FEBRUARY. 

Rain — liail — sleet — snow — But in my East 
This is the time when palm-trees quicken 

With flowers, wherefrom the Arabs' feast 
Of amber dates will thenceforth thicken. 

Female and male, apart they grow; 

And o'er the desert-sands is wafted, 
On light airs of the After-glow, 

That golden dust whence fruit is grafted. 

No gray reality's alloy 

Your green ideal can diminish! 
You have love's kiss, in all its joy, 

Without love's lips, which let us finish! 



47 



February ist. 

" Worshipful ! my heart 
Is little, and a little rain will fill 
The lily's cup which hardly moists the field. 
It is enough for me to feel life's sun 
Shine in my Lord's grace and my baby's smile, 
Making the loving summer of our home." 

— The Light of Asia. 



February 2d. 

This scroll, and what it saith 
Ends my commission. 

— Gfiselda. 

Mistress, sweet and bright and holy I 

Meet him in that place; 
Change his cheerless melancholy 

Into joy and grace; 
If thou hast forgiven, vex not; 

If thou lovest, go; 
Watching ever by the river, 

Krishna listens low. 

— The htdian Song of Songs. 
48 



February ist. 



February 2do 



49 



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February 3d. 

What lightning strikes, in sooth, like a fair face ? 
What arrow pierces like a woman's grace ? 
'Tis the eyes slay, thence fly the subtle darts 
Which deal swift wounds and hurt unguarded hearts 
— /Zero and Lcander. 

Streams, that seek the sea, 
g"^ The more they flow the wider be. 

— The Enchanted Lake. 

February 4th. 

I choose 
To tread its paths with patient, stainless feet, 
Making its dust my bed, its loneliest wastes 
My dwelling, and its meanest things my mates : 
Clad in no prouder garb than outcasts wear. 
Fed with no meats save what the charitable 
Give of their will, sheltered by no more pomp 
Than the dim cave lends or the jungle-bush. 
This will I do because the woful cry 
Of life and all flesh living cometh up 
Into my ears, and all my soul is full 
(^f pity for the sickness of this world. 

— The Light of Asia. 
50 



February 3d. 



February 4th. 



51. 



_^ February 5th. 

_ ^ How should I not be happy, blest so much, 

^c — The Light of Asia. 

£^ Softly the sway of the pine-branches murmurs a melo- 

< K dy, shepherd ' 

g 2 Down by the rim of the fountain, and softly dost thou, 
u z on the Pan-pipes, 

§►2. Pipe to the pines: next to Pan thou bearest the bell 
Sq for rare music. 

< ^" — From Theocritus. 



February 6th. 

Not a life below the sun 
But is precious — unto one. 
Not an eye, however dull, 
But seems somewhere beautiful ; 
Not a heart, howe'er despised. 
But is passioned for and prized. 
Fool who laughs at lack of graces 
Each one hath a many faces. 

— Fades noii omnibus una. 
52 



Februarj^ Sth. 



February 6ih. 



53 



February 7th. 

And a love-look lights her eyes in the gloom, 
And the darkness is sweet with her sighs. 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 

His was a kingdom mighty as thine own, 
The sword his sceptre and the earth his throne 
The nations trembled when his awful eye 
Gave to them leave to live, or doom to die. 

— The Feast of Belshazzar, 



February 8th. 

The thoughts ye cannot stay with brazen chains 
A girl's ha'r lightly binds. 

— The Light of Asia. 

And wisdom deep his guerdon was. 

And mighty things he knew; 
Yet from each unlocked mystery 
Some harder marvel grew. 

— J^est. 
54 



February yth. 



February 8th 



55 



February 9th. 

— and, in a bower of Paradise — 
Where nectarous blossoms wove a shrine of shade, 
Haunted by birds and bees of unknown skies — 
She sate. 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 

Oh, moon! hide not thy face. Oh, white moon! listen 

and pity ! 
Silver-faced Queen of the Stars, thou know'st we are 

not as immortals. 

— From Theocritus. 

February loth. 

One that hath 
V countenance like the full moons for light 
And eyes of lotus. 

— A^ala and Damayanti. 

In speech 
Right gentle, yet so wise ; princely of mien, 
Yet softly-mannered; modest, deferent. 
And tender-hearted, though of fearless blood. 

— The Light of Asia. 
56 



February 9th. 



February loth. 



._ February nth. 

■o 

c Consider! if a king should call thee "friend," 

o 

"I And lead thee to his court, 

Roofed large with lazulite, and pavemented 

J With flow'rs, on green floors wrought; 

a 

h 

2 Lo! but He doeth this — Allah our King, 

Q His sky is lazulite; 

Q 

^ His earth is paved with emerald-work ; its stores 

g Are spread for man's delight. 

— TAe Pearls of the Faith. 



February 12 th. 

And — angel albeit — her rich lips breathe 
Sighs, if sighs were ever so sweet ; 

And — if spirits can tremble — she trembles now 
From forehead to jewelled feet. 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 

Each from the goblet of a god shall sip 
And Judah's gold tread heavy on the lip. 

— TJie Feast of Belshazzar. 
58 



February nth. 



February 12 th. 



59 



February 13th. 

Stars! if my sweet love still a dreaming lies, 

Shine through the roses for a lover's sake, 
And send your silver to her lidded eyes; 

Kissing them very gently till she wake. 
Then while she wonders at the lay and light, 

Tell her, though morning endeth star and song, 
That ye live still, when no star glitters bright, 

And my love lasteth, though it finds no tongue. 

— Serenade. 



N February 14th. 

< % Speak once more ! then thou canst not choose but 

/^r! show 

f^ o 

o"™ Thy mouth's unparalleled and honeyed wonder 

"■^ 

g 15 Where, like pearls hid in red-lipped shells, the row 

^.T3 Of pearly teeth thy rose-red lips lie under; 

:r £ Ah me ! I am that bird that woos the moon, 

^-^ And pipes — poor fool! to make it glitter soon. 

2 — The Indian Song of Songs. 

I 60 



February 13th. 



February 14th 



61 



February 15th. 

There came a woman, fair and sweet, 
So ravishing of form and mien 
That great Soharah, who is queen 
Of the third planet, hath not eyes 
As soft, nor mouth made in such wise. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 

Thou dost but chase the shadow of thyself. 

— The Light of Asia. 



February i6th. 

The stainless ramps of huge Himala's wall, 
Ranged in white ranks against the blue — untrod. 
Infinite, wonderful — whose uplands vast, 
And lifted universe of crest and crag, 
Shoulder and shelf, green slope and icy horn. 
Riven ravine, and splintered precipice 
Led climbing thought higher and higher, until 
It seemed to stand in heaven and speak with gods. 
— The Light of Asia. 
62 



February 15th. 



February i6th. 



63 



February 17th. 

While gained for ever, I shall dare to grow 
Life to life with him, in the realms divine; 
And — Love's large cup at happy overflow, 

Yet ever to be filled — his eyes and mine 
Shall meet in that glad look, when Time's great gat 
Closes and shuts out fate. 
— The Indian Song of Songs. 

For holiest is the war that winneth Peace. 

— Add7'ess to the Earl of Derby. 

February i8th. 

Forbiddest thou gift of the common stream 
To this idolator, spent with the heat, 
Who, in his utmost need, watered his beast, 
And bowed the knee in reverence, ere he drank. > 
Allah hath borne with him these threescore years, 
Bestowed upon him corn and wine, and made 
His household fruitful and his herds increase; 
And find'st thou not patience to pity him 
Whom God hath pitied, waiting for the end, 
Since none save He wotteth what end will come, 
Or who shall find the light. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 
64 



February 17th. 



February i8th. 



65 



February 19th. 

If my love loved me, he should be a bee, 
I the yellow champak, love the honey of me." 
— The Indian Song of Songs. 

He shall tread the sad and lowly path 

Of self-denial and of pious pains, 

Gaining who knows what good, when all is lost 

Worth keeping. 

— The Light of Asia. 



February 20th. 

Gods ! Helen's town I've seen, and Sparta's dames, 
Whose charms make wars and give the world to. 

flames ; 
But never saw I one that could compare 
With form so goddess-like and face so rare. 

— Hero and Leafider: 

I thank. the.e for. tlie blessing of such lore. 

— The. Birth, of Death.. 
66 



February iqiIi. 



February 20th. 



67 



February 21st. 

Fortune! Rate her like a master, 
And she serves thee like a slave. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 

For now I know, by what within me stirs, 
That I shall teach compassion unto men 
And be a speechless world's interpreter, 
Abating this accursed flood of woe, 
Not man's alone. 

— The Light of Asia. 



February 22d. 

Nay, draw not near, thou wilt not turn the leaf 
Of old philosophy ! 
Well, an' thou'lt learn, 



.-2 % 

•z. a 

g I See how it saith, " That in the ancient date 

2 J Priam of Trov " — Ah ! but thou must not wait 

I -J 

^ :^ To kiss before we turn. 

mP^ — From Aristippus. 

hi 

_^ Seeking nothing he gains all. 

§ — The Light of Asia. 

^ 68 



February 21st. 



February 2 2d. 



February 23d. 






** O Devvdrop!" said the Rose, "where didst thou gain 
This light, that like a gem on me hath lain?" 
"A cloud," he said, uplifted me from ocean, 
And I must trickle to the deep again." 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 

Now thy name is his playmate — that only ! — 
— The Indian Song of Songs. 

February 24th. 

Before beginning, and without an end. 
As space eternal and as surety sure, 

Is fixed a Power divine which moves to good, 
Only its laws endure. 

The ordered music of the marching orbs 
It makes in viewless canopy of sky; 

In deep abyss of earth it hides up gold, 
Sards, sapphires, lazuli. 

Ever and ever bringing secrets forth, 

It sitteth in the green of forest-giades 
Nursing strange seedlings at the cedar's root 
Devising leaves, blooms, blades. 

— The Light of Asia. 
70 



February 23d, 



February 24th 






February 25th. 

Where art thou, sweet? 
I long for thee, as thirsty lips for streams! 
Oh, gentle promised angel of my dreams, 

Why do we never meet ? 

— A ma Future. 

Be second and not first! — the share's the same 
If all go well. If not, the Head's to blame. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 



. February 26th. 

Low whispers the wind from Malaya 

O'erladen with love; 
On the hills all the grass is burned yellow; 

And the trees in the grove 
Droop with tendrils that melt by their sweetness 

The thoughts of the parted. 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 

In truthfulness of act be our faith seen. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 
72 



February 25th. 



February 26th. 



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i 



P'ebruary 27th. 

— none of these 
Am I, good saints. No goddess of the woods 
Nor yet a mountain, nor a river sprite; 
A woman ye behold. 

— Nala and Damayanti. 

Thou knowest all without the books : and know'st 
Fair reverence besides. 

— The Light of Asia. 



February 28th. 

— doing right is more 
Than any learning. 

— Love and Death. 

My soul for tenderness, not blame, was made ; 

Mine eyes look through his evil to his good ; 
My heart coins pleas for him ; my fervent thought 
Prevents what he will say when these are naught; 

And that which I am shall be understood, 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 

74 



February 27lh. 



February 28th. 



February 29th. 

Sweet seem your wedded days ; and dear and tender 
Your children's talk ; brave 'tis to hear the tramp 

Of pastured horses ; and to see the splendour 
Of gold and silver plunder ; and to camp 

With goats and camels by the bubbling fountain ; 

And to drink fragrance from the desert wind, 
And to sit silent on the mighty mountain; 

And all the joys which make life bright and kind. 
— The Pearls of the Failh. 



76 



February 29th. 



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MARCH. 

Welcome ! Northwind from the Norland ! 
Strike upon our foremost foreland, 
Sweep away, along the moorland, 
Do thy gusty kind ! 

Thou and we were born together 
In the black Norwegian weather; 
Birds we be of one brave feather, 
Welcome, bully wind I 

Go! with train of spray and sea-bird, 
Fling the milky waves to leeward, 
Drive the ragged rain-clouds seaward. 

Chase the scudding ships. 

To the southwind take our greeting. 
Bid him send the Spring — his sweeting — 
Say what stout hearts wait her meeting, 
What bright eyes and lips. 



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March ist. 

— Noblest, loveliest, best 
Who bear'st no gems, yet so becomest them. 
How like the new moon's silver horn thou art 
When envious black clouds blot it ! 

— Nala and Daviayanli. 

And he's a fool that fights against his fate. 
He loses, and gets shame, besides his tears. 

— From Hesiod. 



March 2d. 

I love thee to-day as I loved* thee before. 

I shall love thee as truly for evermore. 

f^S —The Three Students. 

I§ 

sf^ No pause — no standing-spot, no ground 

D s To slay the spirit's quest, 

^c5 In all around not one thing found 

d:^ So good as to be — "best." 

~Z -r- Rest. 

^ 82 



March ist. 



March 2d 



z <: 



March 3d. 



Her face of alabaster all a-shine 

Like the pure moon when first it swims the sky. 

— Hero and Leander. 



But hear and help, ye wise and shining nine 



Q I I yearn and strive towards your heavenly side ; 

Teach me the secret of the mystic sign. 

Give me the lore that guards, the words that guid 

— From Proclii 



March 4th. 

The Master cast his vision forth on flesh, 

Saw who should hear and who must wait to hear. 

As the keen Sun gilding the lotus-lakes 

Seeth which buds will open to his beams 

And which are not yet risen from their roots; 

Then spake, divinely smiling, "Yea! I preach! 

Whoso will listen let him learn the Law." 

— The Light of Asia 
84 



March 3d. 



March 4th. 



85 



"^ March 5th. 

00 

c Cheating them that truly trust you, 'tis a clum 

.S" villainy. 

< — TAc Book of Good Counsels. 

< 

J "I was not hopeless, for I won the prize 

X At running, and the maidens call me fair. 

^ The one prize I have longed for since the feast 

^ Was once to touch the goal of those dear lips ; 

Then I could rest — not else!" 

--— — From Theocritus. 



March 6th. 

' Love's strength is perfect in love's utter weakness. 
Love's nobleness is noblest in love's meekness, 
' Love ever ! none are gone ! 

' None go ! none ever ! 
* Know ! when two hearts are set to one true time, 
' For aye they make one music, chime one chime, 

'Look up! and doubt it never!' 

— Dreanilaiid. 



March 5th. 



March 6th. 



87 



March 7th. 

The foolish ofttimes teach the wise. 

— The Light of Asia. 

"Under the angry sun the slain earth — look! — 
Dries up to dust; dies every growing thing; 
Then blow we breaths of southern wind which bring 
Rain-dropping clouds, and see! the dead earth lives, 
And stirs, and swells; and every herb revives." 

— 7he Pearls of the Faith. 



March 8th. 

Ah ! delicate phantoms that cheated 

With eyes that looked lasting and true, 
I awake, — I have seen her, — my angel — " 

Farewell to the wood and to you! 
Oh, whisper of wonderful pity! 

Oh, fair face that shone ! 
Though thou be a vision, Divinest ! 

This vision is done. 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 



March 7th. 



March 8th. 



March 9th, 

Not by one portal, or one path alone, 
God's holy messages to men are known ; 
Waiting the glances of his awful eyes, 
Silver-winged Seraphs do his embassies ; 
And stars interpreting his high behest 
Guide the lone feet and glad the failing breast. 
— The Feast of Belshazzar. 



March loth. 

To lay up lasting treasure 

Of perfect service rendered, duties done 
In charity, soft speech, and stainless days : 

These riches shall not fade away in life, 
Nor any death dispraise. 

— The Light of Asia. 

— there haps to man 
Nothing unless by destiny. 

— Nala and Damayanti. 
90 



March 9th. 



March 10th. 



91 



March nth. 

Patience makes mirth as buds make bloom, 

Past loss is present treasure, 
To-day's remembered grief and gloom 

Will be to-morrow's pleasure. 

— Wait yet. 

Vows of men 
Fail ofttimes, being blind, but this of thine was noble. 
— 7^he Enchanted Lake. 



March 12 th. 

Ask who his friends are, ere you scorn your foe. 
— The Book of Good Counsels. 

— and there 
Behind its portal awful Azrael writes; 
The shadow of his brows compassionate 

Made night across all worlds ; 

For always on a scroll he sets the names 
Of new-born beings, and from off the scroll 
He blotteth who must die. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 
92 



March nth. 



March 12th. 



March 13th. 

Then the World-honoured spake " Scatter not rice 

But offer loving thoughts and acts to all. 

To parents as the East where rises light ; 

To teachers as the South whence rich gifts come; 

To wife and children as the West where gleam 

Colors of love and calm, and all days end; 

To friends and kinsmen and all men as North ; 

To humblest living things beneath ; to Saints 

And Angels and the blessed Dead above : 

So shall all evil be shut off, and so 

The six main quarters will be safely kept." 

— The Light of Asia. 

March 14th. 

Life without golden love — what bliss is this? 

Oh, let me die when love is dead with me! 
The stolen words, the honeyed gifts, the kiss. 

These are the blossoms of youth's glorious tree. 
— From Mimttertfuts. 

"O Rose!" the Dewdrop said, "whence didst thou 

spring. 
That art so sweet and proud and fair a thing ? " 
— The Pearls of the Faith. 
94 



March 13th. 



March 14th. 



95 



March 15th. I 

" Comfort thee, dear ! " he said, " if comfort lives 
In changeless love." 

— The Light of Asia. 

" In mine own land, if any stranger sit 
A wedding-guest, the bride, out of her grace, 
In token that she knows her guest's good-will. 
In token she repays it, brims a cup, 
Wherefrom he drinking, she in turn doth drink : 
So is our use." 

— King Saladin. 



March 16th. 

O Dancer ! strip thy peacock-crown away, 
Rise ! thou whose forehead is the star of day, 

With beauty for its silver halo set ; 
Come ! thou whose greatness gleams beneath its shroi 
Like Indra's rainbow shining through the cloud — 

Come, for I love thee, my Beloved ! yet. 

— The Ifidian Song of Songs. 



March 15th. 



March i6th. 



97 



March 17th. 









;| He who shares his comrade's portion, be he l)eggar 

I be he lord, 

o 

Q- Comes as truly, comes as duly, to the battle as tht 

< l)oard — 

0^ Stands before the king to succour, follows to the pi; 
7, to sigh 

< lie is friend, and he is kinsman — less would make 
- the name a lie. 

^ — The Book of Good Counsels. 

« — strong for shocks 

g As is a tent with tent-pegs driven deep ? 

^- — The Pearls of the Faith. 

o 

" March 18th. 

— Little praise had now 
That beauty which in old days shone so bright 
Marred with much grief it was, like sunlight dimmed 
By fold on fold of wreathed and creeping mist. 

— Nala and Damayanti. 

— like a love-verse printed 
On the smooth polish of an emerald. 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 
98 



March lyih. 



March i8th. 



99 



March 19th. 

M(jther! mild mother! after many years — 

So many that the head I bow turns gray — 

Come I once more to thee, thinking to say 

111 what far lands, through what hard hopes and 

fears, 
'Mid how much toil and triumph, joys and tears 
I taught thy teaching, and, withall, to lay 
At thy kind feet such of my wreaths as may 
Seem the least withered. 

— Oxford Revisited. 



March 20th. 

Thou gavest her those black brows for a bow 
Arched like thine own, whose pointed arrows seem 
Her glances, and the underlids that go — 
So firm and fine — its string? Ah, fleeting gleam! 
Beautiful dream! 
— The Indian So7ig of Songs. 

Friend, art thou faithful ? Guard mine honor so ! 
— The Book of Good Counsels. 
100 



March 19th. 



March 20th. 



101 



March 21st. | 

^ Have ye bethought why seed should shoot, not sand, 

£ .;, Granite or crave! ? Why the gentle rain 

'^. " Falleth so clean and sweet from out Our sky, 

So Which might be salt and black and bitter? Why 

5 a The soft clouds gather it from off the seas 

'^^ To spread it o'er the pastures by and by? 

- w — TAe Pearls of the Faith. 



March 22d. 

Even when their loss is largest, noble ladies 
Keep the true treasure of their hearts unspent 
Attaining heaven through faith, which undismayed is 
By wrong. 

— Nala and Damayanti. 

Eager ye cleave to shadows, dote on dreams; 
A false Self in the midst ye plant, and make 
A world around. 

— The Light of Asia. 
102 



March 21st. 



March 22d. 



103 



March 23CL 

And her subtle mouth that murmurs, 

And her silken cheek, 
And her eyes, say she dissembles 

Plain as speech could speak. 

— The Iitdiaii Song of Songs. 

All evil hearts 
Grew gentle, kind hearts gentler, as the balm 
Of that divinest Daybreak lightened Earth. 

— The Light of Asia, 



March 24th. 

Who taught thee such deep eloquence? Ah, mel 
Who brought thee hither, and procured us pain? 
For all these sweet things said are said in vain. 

— He7'o and Leander. 

— like the noise on the brink 
Of the sea, when its stones 

Are dragged with a clatter and hiss 
Down the shore, in the wild breakers' roar. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 
104 



March 23d. 



March 2 4th« 



105 



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^ March 25th. 

M My cheeks were white no more, nor my heart sad 
« Nor any trouble left ; but we sat dose, 
3 And the soft talk bubbled from lip to lip 

— F7'om Theocritus. 



•J Like fountains in the roses 



One foot goes, and one foot stands 
When the wise man leaves his lands. 

— The Book of Good Counsels, 



^ March 26th. 

3 No low born form is thine, albeit thou com'st 

^ Wearing no ornaments. 

^ — Nala and Damayanti. 

■s: Decked forth in fold of woven gold, and crowned 
w with forest-flowers ; 

J And scented with the sandal, and gay with gems of 
% price — 

K 

g Rubies to mate his laughing lips, and diamonds like 
-V— his eyes. 

g — The India II Song of Songs. 

^ 106 



March 25th. 



March 26th. 



107 



March 27th. 

Love comes if the rose-crown rings thee, — 
Love endless and ever the same ; 

And the bright leaf of lanrcl brings thee 
The minstrel's favor and fame. 

But the rose hath an angry briar, 
That vvoundeth wherever 'tis worn, 

And, with laurel to lift thee higher. 
There are poisonous berries of scorn. 

— The Tiuo Wreaths. 



March 28th. 

Ah! Hero, wherefore call o'er such a sea .^ 
Too fond thou wert ; too bold and faithful he! 
Thou should'st have left unlit thy lamp of love. 
And waited till kind spring made green the grove; 
Ikit love and fate compelled her! so, o'ercome, 
She set her light, and lured him to his doom. 

— Hero and Leamier. 

For all the poor are piteous to the poor 

— The Lii^ht if Asia. 
108 



March 27th. 



March 28th. 



109 



March 29th. 

Were it one wasted seed of water-grass, 
Blown by the wind, or buried in the sand, 
He seeth and ordaineth if it live; 
Were it a wild bee questing honey-buds, 
He seeth if she find, and how she comes 
On busy winglets to her hollow tree. 

— The Pearls of the Faith, 

The utmost lov« is conquering sense. 

— The Enchanted Lake. 



March 30th. 

— honored and strong 
Truth speaking, skilled in arms, sagacious, just ; 
Terrible to his foes. 

— IVala and Damayanti. 

There is naught better than to be 
With noble souls in company. 
There is naught dearer than to wend 
With good friends faithful to the end. 

— Tove and Death. 
110 



March 29th. 



March 30th. 



Ill 



March 31st. 



.1 Come — 



o o Sweet son ! and see the pleasaunce of the spring, 

-".o And how the fruitful earth is wooed to yield 

^ 'f. Its riches to the reaper ; how my realm — 

J'^_ Which shall be thine when the pile flames for me — 

^ ° Feeds all its mouths and keeps the King's chest filled. 

wS Fair is the season with new leaves, bright blooms, 

< g Green grass, and cries of plough-time." So they rode 

Q 5 

z ^ And all the jungle laughed with nesting-songs, 

^^ And all the thickets rustled with small life 

g Of lizard, bee, beetle and creeping thing — 

o 

« Pleased at the springtime. 

— The Light of Asia. 



U2 



Mauch 31st. 



113 



APRIL. 

Fair Grecian legend! that in spring, 
Seeking soft tale for sunnier hours, 
Fabled how Enna's queen did bring 
Back from the Underworld her flowers. 

Whence come ye else, cups of glad gold, 
Which men the yellow crocus call ? 
Ye snow-drops ! maiden meek and cold. 
What other fingers let you fall ? 

What hand but hers ? who, wont to rove 
The asphodel in Himera, 
Torn thence by an ungentle love, 
Flung not her favorites away ? 

Vainly dark king ! on thoughts that roam, 
Thy passion and thy power were spent, 
While one fair flower breathes airs of home, 
Homewards her heart and soul are bent. 



117 



April ist. 

Blossom of the almond-trees 
April's gift to April's bees 
Birthday ornament of spring, 
Flora's fairest daughterling. 

Ah ! when winter winds are swinging 
All thy red bells into ringing, 
With a bee in every bell, 
Almond-bloom, we greet thee well. 

— April Blossoms. 



April 2d. 

Let be,— let be! 
These idle follies are not for the wise, 
A scholar's loves are fair philosophies ; 

I prithee leave me free ! 

— Aristippiis. 

Bear not false witness, slander not, nor lie; 
Truth is the speech of inward purity. 

— The Light of Asi.t. 
118 



April ist. 



April 2d. 



119 



, April 3d. 

CO 

c The swallow is come from his Syrian home 

1^ To build on the English eaves, 

'r^,^ The sycamore wears his glistening spears, 

-c And the almond rains roseate leaves, 

„cy And — dear I.ove ! — with thee as with bird and with 

hS tree 

g 2 'Tis the time of blossom and nest, 

w > 

X^ Then what fair thing of the beautiful spring 

g| Shall I liken to thee — the best. 

o o 

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April 4th. 

Ah ! beauty, rich and rare, 
If thou be casket to a mind like thee 
There were a piece of quaint and perfect work 
Worthy a monarch's wimiing. 

— Griselda. 

Do thou a blessing bring — 
Whose neck is gilt with yellow dust 
From lilies. 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 
320 



April 3d. 



April 4th. 



121 



April 5th. 

Consider them that serve 
The false gods, how they lay in golden dishes 
Honey and fruits and fishes 
Before their idols ; and the green fly comes. 
Shoots through the guarded gates, and hums 
Scorn of their offering, stealing what she will; 
And none of these great gods the thief can kill. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 



April 6th. 

Light as the wings of Eros, and fleeting as Queen 
Aphrodite ! 

— From Theocritus. 

When 'tis willed we die 
Shall there not be as good a "Then" as "Now?" 
Haply much better ! since one grain of rice 
Shoots a green feather gem'd with fifty pearls, 
And all the starry champak's white and gold 
Lurks in those little, naked, gray spring buds. 

— The Light of Asia. 
122 



• April 5th. 



April 6th. 



123 



April 7th. ^ 

A noble name, 
Not the less sheweth beautiful and bright, 
Though pale the stars that gives its letters light. 

— A Dedication. 

Hence comes she with her pleasant wont 

When April chases Winter old, 
Couching against his frozen front 

Her tiny spears of green and gold. 

— Song. 



April 8th. 

Saw you ever truer wife ? 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 

"Think most of Eros, foolish heart of mine! 
** Care not for tumbling billows ; let us go 
"Straight over them to Hero; why shrink so? 
" Hast thou forgotten that Queen Venus came 
"Forth from the floods, and ever rules the same? 

— Hero and Leander. 
124 



April 7th. 



April 8th. 



125 



April 9th. 

A modest manner fits a maid, 
And patience is a man's adorning, 

But brides may kiss nor do amiss, 

And men may draw at scathe and scorning. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 

— a large 
Beauteous white cock crowed matins, at the sound 
Cocks in a thousand planets hailed the morn. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 



April loth. 

— Good fellowship I'll show 

If thou wilt succor me. I'll be to thee 
A faithful friend. 

— Nala ajid Damayanti. 

And man who lives to die, dies to live well 
So if he guide his ways by blamelessness 
And earnest will to hinder not but help 
All things both great and small which suffer life. 

— The Light of Asia. 
126 



Aptiii, 9th. 



April loth. 



127 



April itth. 

Are not rarest melodies 

Played on silver strings ? 
H Look we not to gentle lips 

For gentle-spoken things? 
Sounds not joy the dearer 

From a joyous tongue ? 
Seems not sorrow nearer 

Sorrowfully sung ? 



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— To a Lady. 



April 12th. 

— hast thou strained thy thought 
Searching that depth, which numbs the seeking mind 
As too much light the eager gaze doth blind? 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 

Silly glass, in splendid settings, 

Something of the gold may gain ; 
And in company of wise ones, 
Fools to wisdom may attain. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 
328 



April i ith. 



April 12 th. 



129 



April 13th. 

B Next a fisherman comes, cut out on a rock, and its 

^ ledges 

^ Put up rough and stark ; — the old boy, done to a 

> marvel, 

12 Staggers and sweats at his work — just like a fisher- 

o • 

5° man hauling; 

'^ ^ Looking upon it you'd swear the work was alive, 

s -s and no picture, 

f, So do the veins knot up and swell in his neck and 

p his shoulders, 

'""' For, though he's wrinkled and gray, there's stuff left 

yet in the ancient. — I'yom Theocritus. 

? April 14th. 

^ And o'er his brow with roses blown she fans a 

u fragrance rare, 

'^ That falls on the enchanted sense like rain in thirsty 

g air. — The Indian Song of Songs, 



^ 'Tis an emptv sea-shell, — one 

w 

« Out of which the pearl is gone ; 

The shell is broken, it lies there; 

Q The pearl, the al', the soul is here. 
• — After death in Arabia- 

1 130 



April 13th. 



April 14th. 



131 



April 15th. 

Sex, that tires of being true, 
Base and new is brave to you ! 

— The Book of Good Coicnsels. 

With wisdom's scroll to study, and the ways 

Of wondrous living things; 
And lovely pleasure of all ornaments 

That Nature's treasure brings. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 



April i6th. 

A smile like water rippled by a tender summer air. 
— The Egyptian Princess. 

— the man 
Who never erred from virtue, never broke 
Our fellowship, and never in the world 
Was matched for goodly perfectures of form 
Or gracious feature. 

— The Indiati Idylls. 
132 



April i5tli. 



April i6th. 



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April 17th. 

Only be ye gentle hearted ; 

Beauty rich and wisdom rare 
From a gentle spirit parted 

Earneth hate and causeth care. 

— The Falcon Feast. 

Gentle, generous and discerning. 
Such a prince the gods do give ! 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 



April i8th. 

Lo, the night, thy bridesmaid, 
Comes! — her eyes thick-painted 
With soorma of the gloom — 
The night that binds the planet-worlds 

For jewels on her forehead. 
And for emblem and for garland 
Loves the blue-black lotus-bloom. 

— The India ft Song of Songs. 
134 



April 17th. 



April i8th. 



m 



April 19th. 

Whoso hath the gift of giving wisely, equitably, well; 
Whoso, learning all men's secrets, unto none his own 

will tell ; 
Whoso, ever cold and courtly, utters nothing that 

offends, 
Such an one may rule his fellows unto earth's ex- 

tremest ends. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 



April 20th. 

And seeming to see naught, she saw, and bent 
Her sweet head from him — not in discontent; 
And seeming not to hear, she heard, and sighed 
A little silver sigh of pleasured pride ; 
By signs unwitting giving him to know 
It was not anger set her cheeks a-glow. 

— Hero and Leander. 

— brooding o'er the empty eggs of thought. 

— The Light of Asia. 
136 



April 19th. 



April 20th. 



137 



~r April 21st. 

00 

J Lady! thou art a lovely witch; 
o Thou art read in the witch-song well, 

,y- And the spell of thy power binds — ay, at this hour, 

h 

§ Lady! I dare not tell. 

M — T/ie Shrift. 

w 

H 

2 

K April hath Isorrowed from her sister May 

cj The brightest dawn she brags of. 

~'~" — Griselda. 



April 22d. 

Of bad men, cruel men are worst. 

— The Enchanted Lake, 

A garden on a hill 
Is as a likeness of that fair compassion 

Shown for the sake of God : the heavy rain 
Descendeth, and the dew; and every fashion 

Of good seed springs tenfold in fruit and grain. 
— The Pearls of the Faith. 
138 



April 21st. 



April 22d. 



April 23d. 

Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours 

For one lone soul another lonely soul, 
Each chasing each through all the weary hours, 

And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, 
Then blend they, like green leaves and golden flowers 
Into one beautiful and perfect whole; 
And life's long night is ended, and the way 
Lies open onward to eternal day. 

— Destiny. 



April 24th. 

— when shall I hear that voice, as low, 
As tender as the murmur of the rain 
When great clouds gather ? 

— JVala and Darnayanti. 

wSiddartha prays forget him till he come 
Ten times a Prince, with royal wisdom won 
From lonely searchings and the strife for light. 

— llie Light of Asia. 
140 



April 23d. 



April 24th. 



141 



April 25th. 

How new life reaps what the old life did sow: 
_.^ How where its march breaks off its march begins; 

S; Holding the gain and answering for the loss ; 

^ And how in each life good begets more good, 
^ Evil fresh evil ; Death but casting up 

i Debt or credit, whereupon th' account 

a 

"^ In merits or demerits stamps itself 
o By sure arithmic — where no tittle drops — 
>' Certain and just, on some new-springing life; 
^^ Wherein are packed and scored past thoughts am 
deeds, 
Strivings and triumphs, memories and marks 
Of lives forgone. 
• — T/ie Light of Asia. 

~T April 26th. 

c 

2 The moonbeam darting through their leafy screer 

o 

.? Lost half its silver in the softened green, 

^ And fell with lessened lustre, broken light, 

^ Tracing quaint arabesque of dark and white; 

2 Or dimly tinting on the graven stones 

Q The pictured annals of Chaldaean thrones. 
^ — TJie Feast of Belshazzar. 

a; 

.9 14-2 



April 25th. 



April 26th. 



143 



.._ April 27th. 

N. 

c — the large deep lotus-eyes 

o That like to Rati's own, the Queen of Love 

£ Beam, each a lovelit star, filling the worlds 

o With longing. 
.-^ — A^a/a and Damayanti. 



Here is no place for vows broken in making, 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 



April 28th. 

Our name should be a name for hope to utter, 
A watchword for the chosen of the land. 

— A 71 Apology. 

Therefore my life is glad, 
Nowise forgetting yet those other lives 
Painful and poor, wicked and miserable, 
Whereon the gods grant pity ! 

— The Light of Asia. 
. 144 



April 27th. 



April 28th. 



145 



April 29th. 

For him the glorious music rolled 

Of singers silent long ; 
The Roman and the Grecian told 

Their wars of right and wrong ; 
For him Philosophy unveiled 

Athenian Plato's lore ; 
Might these not serve to stead a life ? 
Not these ! — he sighed for more. 



Rest. 



April 30th. 

— When will she overpass 
The river of this sorrow and come safe 
Unto its further shore — 
For as I think in winning her 
Nala would win his happy days again. 

— Nala and Daniayatiti. 

Take heed that no man, being 'scaped from bonds, 
Vexeth bound souls with boasts of liberty. 

— The Light of Asia.. 
146 



April 291I1. 



Aprii, 3otho 



147 



MAY. 

Who cares on the land to stay, 
Wooing the wilful May ; 

Leave the coquette 

To smile or fret 
And away to the sea, away! 

My beauty, my bark at sea 

With the winds and the wild clouds and me 

The low shore soon 

Will be down with the moon, 
And none on the waves but we. 

On, on ! with a swoop and a swirl, 
High over the clear waves curl ; 

Tender they prow 

Like a fairy now, 
Make the blue water bubble with pearl. 

Lo ! yonder, my lady, the light ! 
'Tis the last of the land in sight! 

Look once — and away ! 

Bows down in the spray ; 
Lighted on by the lamps of the night ! 

151 



May I St. 

Among the flowers stood at spring, 

A lowly plant and bare; 
But the golden days adorned it 

With blossoms of the best; 
And though fickle April scorned it, 

May bore it in her breast. 

— Wait Yet. 

Knowledge grows, and life is one, 
And mercy cometh to the merciful. 

— The Light of Asia. 



May 2d. 

Wise, modest, constant, ever close at hand. 

— The Book of Good Counseh. 

Then himself 
Playing the chamberlain, with torches borne. 
Led them to restful beds, commending them 
To sleep and God, who hears — Allah or God — 
When good men do his creatures charities. 

— King Saladiii. 
152 



May ist. 



May 2d. 



163 



^'^- May ^d. 

-^ I know how Krishna passes these hours of blue and 
i| gold, 

"(2 When parted lovers sigh to meet and greet and closely 
g = hold 

"^.5 Hand fast in hand; and every branch upon the Vakul 
g ^ tree 

nS Drof)ps downward with a hundred blooms, in every 
^ 2 bloom a bee ; 

g w He is dancing with the dancers to a laughter-moving 
g ^ tone, 

g ^ In the soft awakening Spring-time, when 'tis hard to 
^^ live alone. 

H J — T/ie Indian Sojig of Songs. 



May 4th. 

A splendid Presence, with large eyes divine 
Beaming, and golden pinions folded down, 
Their speed still tokened by the fluttered gown. 
— The Pearls of the Faith. 

Who toiled a slave may come anew a prince 

For gentle worthiness and merit won ; 
Who ruled a king may wander earth in rags 
For things done and undone. 

— The Light of Asia. 
154 



May 3d. 



May 4th. 



155 



May 5 th. 

Roam where you will, by vale and hill, 

From Vistula to Rhone ; 
No land is like the English land, 

No maidens like our own. 

— The Fairest of the Fixir. 

If there be two ways to a wise man's wish 
But only one way sure, he taketh that. 

— The Night of Slaughter, 



I May 6th. 

o 

H 
o 

n A low and gentle voice — dear woman's chiefest charm, 

^ An excellent thing it is ! and ever lent 

% To truth and love, and meekness ; they who own 

i This gift, by the all-gracious Giver sent, 

^ Ever by quiet step and smile are known ; 

§ By kind eyes that have wept — hearts that have sor- 

I rowed, 

By Patience never-tired, from their own trials bor- 

rowed. 

~^ — Womaii's Voice. 

1 156 



May 5th. 



May 6th. 



167 



-^ May 7th. 

I Like a plank of drift-wood 

(^ Tossed on the watery main, 

2" Another plank encountered, 

w Meets, — touches, — parts again ; 

o So tossed, and drifting ever, 

g On life's unresting sea, 

g Men meet, and greet, and sever, 

u 

J , Parting eternally. 

< 

o — T/ie Book of Good Counsels. 

z 

o 

H 
Z 

< 



May 8th. 



^ My fear is lost in love, my love in fear ; 

;z; This bids me trust my burning wish, and come, 

§ That checks me with its memories, drawing near. 

^ — The Indian Song of Songs. 

M 
Z 

i^ Day — nigh to setting — drew her splendours in; 

< And shadow-loving Hesperus shone high, 

_^ Faint-seen upon the violet eastern sky. 

§ — Hero and Leander. 

o 

" 158 



May ylh. 



May 8th. 



May 9th. 

When most my spirit wanders, ranging round 

The lands and seas — as full of ruth for men 

As the far-flying dove is full of ruth 

For her twin nestlings — ever it has come 

Home with glad wing and passionate plumes to thee 

Who art the sweetness of my kind best seen, 

The utmost of their good, the tenderest 

Of all their tenderness, mine most of all. 

— The Light of Asia. 



May loth. 

That gem of women, with soft face 
Beautiful, wonderful ! 

— The Great Journey. 

And fountain-waters on the palace floor 
Made even answer to the river's roar, 
Rising in silver from the crystal well 
And breaking into spangles as they fell. 

— The Feast of Belshazzar. 
160 



May 9th. 



May 10th. 



161 



May nth. 

d 

§> Ah ! even now 

3 Remembering that one look beside the river, 

o 

^ Softer the vexed eyes seem, and the proud brow 

I Than lotus-leaves when the bees make them quiver. 

a 

~ My love for ever ! 

-— — T/ie Ijidian Song of Songs. 

Here is the chief shall bring 
The glory back to us, having such strength. 



The Encha)ited Lak 



i May 1 2th. 

s 

o 
c 
o 

^ If he hung high a glorious golden lamp 

g To shine where thy feet tread ; 

^ And stretched black 'broidered hangings, sown with 

u gems 

'^ Yox curtains to thy bed ; 

I Lo ! but He doeth this — Allah our King, 
o 
J3L His sun by day. His silver stars by night, 

§ Shine for our sakes. 

^ — The Pearls of the Faith. 

162 



iMav 1 all. 



May 1 2th. 



163 



May 13th. 

This shall thy virtue be: 
And thou shalt purify thee by thyself, 
Making the good wax, and the evil wane 
By nature of the evil's self. 

— The Birth of Death. 

All things are shows, 
And vain the knowledge of their vanity. 

— The Light of Asia. 



May 14th. 

But there hath come a first-born in my tent ; 
Fain would I see my son's face for a day, 
Before mine eyes are sealed. Lend me my life. 
To hold as something borrowed from thy hand. 
Which I will bring again. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 

His interest is ours. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 
164 



May r3th. 



May 14th. 



May 15th. 

Upon his forehead high 
Twenty quick summers had not left a trace, 

Or dimmed a sparkle in the earnest eye 
Whence, like a prisoned bird from durance-place, 

His soul looked upward to its native sky 
His lip was fitter for a lover's song, 
What could it tell of sorrow or of wrong? 

— The Island of Trees. 



May 1 6th. 

Eloquent eyes, soft hands, and beaming brow. 

— Flowers. 

The fixed arithmic of the universe. 
Which meteth good for good and ill for ill. 
Measure for measure, unto deeds, words, thoughts; 
Watchful, aware, implacable, unmoved ; 
Making all futures fruits of all the pasts. 

— The Light of Asia. 



May 15 th. 



May i6th. 



167 



May 17 th. 

Listens low, and on his reed there 

Softly sounds thy name, 
Making even mute things plead there 

For his hope : 'tis shame 
That, while winds are welcome to him. 

If from thee they blow, 
Mournful ever by the river 

Krishna waits thee so ! 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 



May i8th. 

Truly a woman's ornament is this 
The husband is her jewel. 

— JVala and Damayanti. 

Richest, greatest, that one is 
Whose soul 

Sees with calm eyes all fates befall. 
And, needing nought, possesseth all. 

— The Ejichanted Lake. 
168 



May 17 th. 



May 18th. 



169 



May 19th. 

There be redder lips and brighter eyes than she 
hath, but no such lip and eye. 

— Griselda. 

A rock-rift pierced by stroke of lightning gave 

Such misty glimmer as a den need have : 

What eagles might think dawn and owls; the dusk 

Makes day enough for kings of claw and tusk. 

— " The Epic of the Lion.^^ From the French of Victor 

Hiioo. 



May 20th. 

A king 
Is likest Allah, not in triumphing 
'Mid enemies o'erthrown, nor seated high 
On stately gold, nor if the echoing sky 
Rings with his name, but when sweet mercy sways 
His words and deeds. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 

Such a friend ! 
— TJie Book of Good Counsels. 
170 



May 19 th. 



May 2othc 



171 



May 2 1 St. 

If a maiden 

Owned such a silver-lettered name as this, 

She should be lovely as a summer's eve 

All sun and softness ; if she spake, her words 

Should fall like lute-tones on the eager ear, 

Till silence should be sorrow, and her voice 

The spell to make it joy. 

— Juliet. 



May 22cl. 

And in his heart there lives no wish nor hope 

Save only this, to . . find 

Peace on the immortal beauty of thy brow. 

— The Itidian Song of So/igs. 

— All arts no man knows. 
Each hath his wisdom, but in one man's wit 
Is perfect gift of one thing, and not more. 

— Nala and Damayanti. 
172 



May 2 1 St. 



May 22d. 



173 



May 23d. 

Sestos and white Abydos — cities twain 
And there god Eros, setting notch to string, 
Wounded two bosoms with one shaft-shooting, 
A maiden's and a youth's. 

— Hero and Leander. 

Not if thy work be worth a date-stone's skin 
Shall it be overpast. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 



May 24th. 

Woman's love rewards the worthless — kings of knaves 

exalters be ; 
Wealth attends the selfish niggard, and the cloud rains 

on the sea. 
i^ — The Book of Good Counsels. 



is 



This was a Prince unparalleled, thy lord; 
Virtuous as fair, a sea of goodly gifts 
Not to be summoned by a meaner voice. 

— Love and Death. 
174 



May 23d. 



May 24th. 



175 



May 25 th. 

I 

■^ The thought of parting shall not lie 

> Cold on their throbbing lives, 

-a The dread of ending shall not chill 

^^ The glow beginning gives; 

00 o 

~J^^ She in her beauty dark shall look — 

?^g As long as clouds can be — 

in H 

Wj As gracious as the rain-time cloud 

o 9 Kissing the shining sea. 

w'-^^ — 77i£ Indian Song- of Songs. 



May 26th. 

So once again come, mistress ; and, releasing 
Me from my sadness, give me what I sue for, 
Grant me my prayer, and be as heretofore now 
Friend and protectress ! 

— From Sappho. 

When was fond Love so pitiless to love 
Save that this scorned to limit love by life. 

— The Light of Asia. 
176 



May 25 th 



May 26th. 



177 



a, 



May 27th. 

A prince, 
Yotithfti} and fair, 
Skilful in arms, wise, pleasant; in the war 



^ —The Birth of Death. 

W 

K 

9 He is brave whose tongue is silent of the trophies 
.^ of his word ; 

He is great whose quiet bearing marks his greatness 
well assured. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 

May 28th. 



Mine is she! Mine is she! 

— The Book of Coiaisels. 

There lacked not to his wishes wild 
What the broad earth could bring : 
Strong knees were supple at his word. 

Swords glimmered at his will. 
Brave fortune! but it wearied himj — 
His spirit thirsted still. 

^ Rest. 
178 



May 27th. 



May 28th. 



179 



May 29th. 

^ Dearest glory that stills my voice, 
3" Beauty unseen, unknown, unthought ! 

E Splendour of love, in whose sweet light 
S Darkness is past and nought. 

hA — The Indian Song of Songs. 

u 

<: 

^ Nor any ocean rolls so vast that He 

"^ Forgets one wave of all that restless sea. 

• — The Pearls of the Faith. 

May 30th. 
^ A voice of joy, than silver lute-string softer ! 

o 

« A mouth all rosebud, blossoming in laughter ! 

% A baby-angel hard at play ! a dream 

< Of Bethlehem's cradle, or what nests would seem 

§ If girls were hatched !— all these! eyes too, so blue 

Q 

< That sea and sky might own their sapphire new! 

J _" The Epic of the Lion'' From the French of Victor 

u 

s Hngo. 

n 

X Choose by justice, putting self aside. 

^ — The Enchanted Lake. 

180 



May 29lh. 



May 30th. 



181 



May 31st. 

— But as the waxing moon 
Goes thin and darkling for a while, then rounds 
The crescent's rims with splendors, so this queen 
Hath lost not queenliness. Being now obscured 
She shows true gold. 

— Nala and Daviayantt. 

Power is of constant effort. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 



182 



May 31st 



183 



JUNE. 

Lily! uplifting pearly-petalled cups 
A sceptre thou — a silver-headed wand 

By lusty June — the Lord of Summer, waved 
To give to blade and bud his high command. 

Ah ! Vestal-bosomed — thou that all the May 
From maidenly reserve wouldst not depart, 

Till June's warm wooing won thee to display 
The golden secret hidden in thy heart. 

Without, look June: thy pearly love is smutched. 
That which doth wake her gentle beauty slays. 

Alas that nothing lovely lasts, if touched 
By aught more real than 3: longing gaze. 



187 



June ist. 

A form of heavenly mould 
Eyes like a hind's in love time, face so fair 
'Words cannot paint its spell. 

— The Light of Asia. 

Never was here dull Pain or carping Sorrow, 
But ever bright to-day promises brighter morrow. 

— The Sirens. 



June 2d. 

Her eyes, those lamps of love. 

— The Light of Asia. 

To be no more felt, 
To fade, to melt 
In the strong certainty of joys immortal ; 
In the glad meeting. 
And quick sweet greeting 
Of lips that close beyond Time's shadowy portal. 
— The Indian Song of Songs. 
188 



June ist 



June 2dc 



189 



June 3d. 

Eyes that are full of a heavenly light 
Like sister stars in the front of night; 
Lips curving red like the crimson fold 
Of a half-shut rose in the early cold. 

— The Fah-ys Promise. 

Higher than Indra's ye may lift your lot, 
And sink it lower than the worm or gnat. 
— The Light of Asia. 



June 4th. 

'Tis she I no other woman hath such grace ! 

— Nala and Damayanti. 

Give more than thou takest : 
If one shall salute thee, 
Saying, " Peace be upon thee," 
The salute which thou makest, 
Speak it friendlier still, 
As heseemeth goodwill. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 
190 



June 3d. 



Jnue 4th. 



191 



u 



Qcw 



June 5th. 

Have with this embrace what faithful love 
Can think of thanks or frame for bension — 
Too little, seeing love's strong self is weak — 

that thou mayest know — 

What others will not — that I loved thee most 
Because I loved so well all living souls. 

— TAe Light of Asia. 

The good think evil slowly, and they pay 
Well for their faith. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 



June 6th. 



I 



Where Kroona-flowers, that open at a lover's lightest 

tread. 
Break, and, for shame at what they hear, from white 

blush modest red; 
And all the spears on all the boughs of all th( 

Ketuk-glades 



8 ^ 

w w Seem ready darts to pierce the hearts of wanderin 
youths and maids. 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 
192 



June 5th. 



June 6th, 



193 



June 7th. 

The glad Princess 
Laid sorrows by, and blossomed forth anew, 
As does the laughing earth when the rain falls, 
And brings her unseen, waiting wonders forth. 

— Nala and DamayaJiti. 

Give freely and receive, but take from none 
By greed, or force or fraud what is his own. 

— The Light of Asia. 



June 8th. 

The village-gates are set, and the night is grey as yet, 
God hath given wondrous fancies to thee: — sing! 

Then Jymul's supple fingers, with a touch that doubts 
and lingers. 
Sets athrill the saddest wire of all the six ; 
And the girls sit in a tangle, and hush the tinkling 
bangle, 
While the boys pile the flame with store of sticks 
— The Rajpoot's Wife. 
194 



June 7th. 



June 8th 



m 



June 9th. 

Enter me, Dearest 

Debtor for love which I shall ne'er discharge 

Save like a prodigal, by borrowing nev/ly. 

— Unpublished MS. 

The Sages teach, that to walk seven steps 
One with another, maketh good men friends. 

— Love and Death. 



June loth. 

In thee is seen why there is hope for man 
And where we hold the wheel of life at will. 
Peace go with thee, and comfort all thy days I 
— The Light of Asia. 

The heavenly Muses Three 

A branch of laurel gave, which they had plucked, 
To be my sceptre; and they breathed a song 
In music on my soul, and bade me set 
Things past and things to be to that high strain. 

— From Heriod. 
196 



June 9th. 



June loth. 



197 



June nth. 

Ever she waits thee in heavenly bower ; 
The lotus seeks not the wandering bee, 

The bee must find the flower. 
All the wood over her deep eyes roam, 
Marvelling sore where tarries the bee, 
Who leaves such leaves of nectar unsought 
As those that blossom for thee. 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 



June 12th. 

The lady who did take 
All eyes and hearts along, where'er her feet 
In moving made a music. 

— The Alchemist. 

* I will seek 
Who cast away my world to save my world.' 

— The Light of Asia. 
198 



June iiih. 



June 12 th. 



1.99 



June 13th. 

If, for society in that fair place, 

He gave glad companies. 
Kinsmen and friends and helpmates, and the bliss 

Of beauty's lips and eyes. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 

Who always sings to all, " I wait, 
He loveth still who loveth late." 

— The Indian Song of Songs, 



June 14th. 

And vain ! yes, vain I 
For me too is it, having so much striven, 

To see this fine snare take thee, and thy soul 
Which should have climbed to mine, and shared my 
heaven. 
Spent on a lower loveliness, whose whole 
Passion of love were but a parody 

Of that kept here for thee. 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 
200 



June 13th. 



June 14th. 



201 



June 15th. 

Behind — before ye, shines Eternity, 
Visible as the vault's fathomless blue, 
Which is so deep the glance goes never through, 
Though nothing stays save depth. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 

Two-fold is the life we live in — Fate and Will together run : 

Two wheels bear life's chariot onward — will it move on 

only one ? 

— The Book of Good Counsels, 



June i6th. 

" Over the breaking wave ; 
Having no neighbour but the rolling sea! 
No song but his rude music!" 

— Hero and Leander. 

It may be that the savage sea is foaming 
And wild winds roaming where thy ship goes free ; 
Yet still as dearly, brother, and sincerely, 
As if more nearly, we will cling to thee. 

— The Emigrant. 
202 



June 15th. 



June i6th. 



- June 17th. 

If she be wise and good, patient and true, 
Are not these virtues for a queen to wear. 
And for a king to wed ? 

— Grisdda. 
The right in thee is base, the wrong a curse ; 
Cheat such as love themselves. 

— The Light of Asia. 



7.^ June i8th. 

.5 Midnight is not so dark and deep as was his solemn 
I gaze, . ^ ^ 

.2 ■ By love and pity lighted, as the night with silvery 

u IT ' 

H -_ rays. 

f§ I — The Pearls of the Faith, 

S o ' Tliough his sins were twenty thousand, twenty thousand 



J w She shall bring his soul to splendour, for her love 



^<: 



so large and bold. 



— The Book of Good Counsels. 
204 



June 17th. 



June 18th. 



205 



June i9tho 

Strike soft strings to this soft measure 

since it tells 

Of a love that sweetly dwells 
In a tender distant glory, 
Past all faults of mortal story. 

— The Indian Song of Songs, 

Skilful, honest, and true-hearted. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 



June 20th. 

What! the tears glisten? 
Indeed I would not wound thy little heart ; 
We'll be good friends, and kiss; but we must part, 

In sooth, — I may not listen. 

— From Aristippiis. 

Yet dost thou truly find it sweet enough 
Only to live ? Can life and love suffice ? 

— The Light of Asia. 



June 19th. 



June 20th. 



207 



June 21st. 

The dignity 
Of silver hairs is much. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 

And I do think 

That out of this fair house, the inner soul, 

Shining, doth make it bright. 

— Griselda. 



June 2 2d. 

What is the bliss that is best on earth 
Lovers' light whispers and tender mirth ; 
Bright gleams the sun on the green sea's isle, 
But a brighter light has a woman's smile : 
Ever, like sunrise, fresh of hue, 
Taza ba taza, now ba now. 

— Taza ba Taza. 



June 2isl. 



June 22d. 



209 



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(/)< 



June 23d. 

Will not sorrow clear me ? 
Shine once I speak one word pitiful and dearl 

Wilt thou not hear ? 
Cans't thou — because I did forget — forsake me? 
— The Indian Song of Songs. 

— sudden bliss, as if love should not fail 
Nor such vast sorrow miss to end in joy. 

— The Light of Asia, 



June 24th. 



■>'S Seven foemen of all foemen, very hard to vanquish 
?l be: 



^ < The Truth-teller, the Just-dweller, and the man from 

< s 

l^"5 passion free, 

^ g Subtle, self-sustained, and counting frequent well won 

Z Q 

g I victories, 

'I' 2 And the man of many kinsmen — keep the peace with 
such as these. 

— The Book of Good Cotcnsels. 
210 



June 23d. 



June 24th. 



211 



— s June 25th. 

K — after storm and toil 

^ And woes beneath the midnight and the noon, 

3 Searching the wave I won therefrom a pearl 

a Moonlike and glorious. . . . Then came I glad 

S Unto mine hills. 

H 

w — T^e Light of Asia. 

O 

I In His sight alway 

o 

J^ How sweet are reverence and gentleness 

Done to His creatures. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 

June 26th. 

ro 

With thee, with thee, whose love 
I Made all our dangers sweet ? 

^ — The Enchanted Lake. 

q" 
z 

< 

o Messer Torello, at the inner gate, 

Id Waiting to take them in — a goodly host, 

o Stamped current with God's image for a man 

_^ Chief among men, truthful, and just, and free. 

§ — A7;/p- Saladin. 

o "^ 

« 212 



June 25th. 



June 26th. 



213 



June 27th. 

.« with these 

I The nigher towns and cities swarmed like bees 

^ To see the show ; but most of all the youth : — 

7; Ever they throng where feasts are ! — to tell truth, 

X 'Tis not, methinks, the shrine which draws them 

O 

o so, — 

w To see the maidens those light pilgrims go ! 
Pi 
■^^ — //^ro and Leander. 



June 28th. 

As flame from torch to torch doth strike — 
The light of life shines on, bright, joyous, warm. 
— The Pearls of the Faith. 

The devils in the underworlds wear out 

Deeds that were wicked in an age gone by. 
Nothing endures : fair virtues waste with time. 
Foul sins grow purged thereby. 

— The Light of Asia. 
214 



June 27th. 



June 28th. 



215 



^^ June 29th. 

o 

I Moonlight makes her mournful with radiance silvery; 

g Even the southern breeze blown fresh from pearly 

> 

M seas, 

> Seems to her but tainted by a dolorous brine. 

w — T/ie Indian Song of Songs. 

^_ Noble hearts are golden vases — close the bond true 
metals make 
Easily the smith may weld them, harder far it is to 
break. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 



June 30th. 

The sad world blesseth thee. 

— The Light of Asia. 

A pleasant palace under pleasant skies 
With cloistered courts and gilded galleries, 

By court and terrace, minaret and dome, 
Euphrates, rushing from his mountain home, 
Rested his rage, and curbed his crested pride 
To belt that palace with his bluest tide. 

— The Feast of Belshazzar. 

216 



June 29th. 



June 30th. 



217 




fc?^ 







JULY. 

Proud, on the bosom of the river 

White-winged, the vessels come and go, 
Dropping down with ingots to deliver. 

Drifting up lordly, on the flow. 
Glassed in the green waters under, 

Grand against the crimson of the sky, 
Kings of the sunshine and the thunder, 

Come they and go they in July. 

Meek, to the bosom of the river, 

White-leaved, the lily comes alone, 
P'rom water-grass and sedges climbing ever 

Who knows the lily-bud is blown ? 
Who cares to think the wind of summer 

Rocking the great ships to sea. 
Kissed as it passed that latest comer, 

Rocked the white lily and the bee ? 

Rocked the pale lily with its burden, 

Only a worker-bee at most, 
Working for nothing, save the guerdon 

To live on her honey in the frost. 
But on small things and large the summer shineth 

Over ships and over lily globes the sky. 
And the sender of the summer wind divineth, 

What portion each shall have of his July. 
221 



July ist. 

Marching down to Armageddon — 

Brothers stout and strong ! 
Let us cheer the way we tread on 

With a soldier's song ! 
Faint we by the weary road, 

Or fall we in the rout, 
Dirge or Paean, Death or Triumph ! 

Let the song ring out ! 

— A rm ageddon . 

July 2d. 

If sorrow falls, 
Take comfort still in deeming there may be 
A way to peace on earth by woes of ours. 

— T/ie Light of Asia. 

Oh, He sees 
And measures and bestows ; but what is kept. 
Beyond gifts here, for kindly hearts that love, 
God only wotteth, and the Eternal Peace. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 
222 



July ist. 



July 2cL 



223 



a. 



July 3d. 

When the silver stars were throwing 

Soft lines on the silver sea 
Like a shade in the twilight showing 

Came my life unto me. 

— The Two Wreaths. 

More than was well the goodly things of earth 
Pleased thee, my pleasant brother ! 

— The Indian Idylls. 



July 4th. 

My heart stays here ! have pity ! let me know 
Thou giv'st me back some trifle, if not all ^ 

Of thine. Good-bye ! Good-night ! la buona sera ! 
vSleep soft, and think kind things of thy Vallera ! 
— La Nencia da Barberino. 

My heart resolved, my mouth hath spoken it, 
My hand shall execute. 

— Love and Death. 
224 



July 3d. 



July 4th. 



225 



__ July 5th. 

<u 

^ Oh, sing a simple song, for I have thought, 

uT Listening to many a modern line and lay 

i Of minstrelsy excelling, that their strings 

^ Strove for too great an utterance, and so missed 

^ The ready road that quiet music finds 

o Right to the heart ; like as an o'erstrained bow 

^ Shoots past the butt. 

X — G rise Ida. 

< .%. 

< t^ 
n - 

t/5 July 6th. 

Grant us grace to see 
Our gain is what we loose for Thee. 
^ — T/ie Pearls of the Faith. 

IT. 

'H 
^^ I too am lion, thou wilt find. 

fe"§ — " The Epic of the Lion.^'' From the French of Victor 
5 Hugo. 

il 

X ^ Golden gift, serene contentment ! have thou that, and 

^ • all is had; 

s K Thrust thy slipper on, and think thee that the earth 



//3 



is leather-clad. 



— The Book of Good Counsels. 
226 



July 5th. 



July 6th, 



227 



July 7th. 

Better than themselves the wise 
Trust the righteous. Each relies 
Most upon the good, and makes 
Friendship with them. Friendship takes 
Fear from hearts ; yet friends betray 
In good men we may trust alway. 

— Love and Death. 



She was no light-o'-love, to change and change. 

— Vernier. 

July 8th. 

Make fast around me 
The silk soft manacles of wrists and hands, 
Then kill me ! I shall never break those bands. 
— The Indian Song of Songs. 

This we Muslims grave 
On polished gem and painted architrave; 
But thou, write its great letters on thy heart, 
Lauding the Mighty One, whose work thou art. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 
228 



July 7 th. 



July 8th. 



_,_ July gtho 

Yes, we shall meet ! 
■g Therefore I bear 

jH This winter-tide as bravely as I may, 

s~ Patiently waiting for the bright spring day 

J That Cometh with thee, dear. 

< 

^ — A ma Future. 

X 

z 
u 

-— — Truly, richer than all riches, better than the best of 

gain, 

Wisdom is, unbought, secure — once won, none loseth 

her again. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 

g. ' July loth. 

g--| Hath she a charm 

" j| To witch all hearts to her ? There's not a tongue 

•^H That hath not learned to laud her. 

£ > Aye ! and none 

H^ That laudeth worthily. 

^ ^ — Griselda. 

^5 

Z D 

g g Truth is to heaven the best of ways, 

— ;- And a kind heart wins happy days. 
§ — The Enchanted Lake. 

=^ 230 



July 9th. 



July loth. 



231 



July nth. 

Radiant with heavenly pity, lost in care 

For those he knew not, save as fellow-lives. 

— The Light of Asia. 

But Peace hath victories of deed and word, 
Won with a subtler weapon than the sword: 
And civic wreaths a greener gleam display, 
Than th'fe stained garlands of the finished fray. 

— Congratulatory Address. 

July 12th. 

Her eyes can steal a shepherd's soul away 
Through wall of flesh, whenever she doth look', 

You see her, and you love, the self-same day, 
Albeit the story goes her heart is rock. 

— La Nencia da Barberino. 

Safe within the husk of silence guard the seed of 

counsel so 
That it break not — being broken, then the seedling 

will not grow. 

— 7he Book of Good Counsels. 
232 



July nth. 



July 12th. 



__ July 13th. 

o 

00 , ~ 

^ The constant virtues of the good, are tenderness and 

I love 

'^ To all that lives — in earth, air, sea — great, small — ■ 

•£ 

§ below, above ; 

g Compassionate of heart, they keep a gentle thought 

^ for each, 

y Kind in their actions, mild in will, and pitiful of 

< speech ; 

-^ Who pitieth not he hath not faith ; full many an one 

so lives, 

But when an enemy seeks help the good man gladly 

gives. 

— Love and Death. 



S. July 14th. 

t: 1 And so I grasp my purpose, and I swear 

BM To win the wreath that I am set to wear. 

■0 o 

— Sonnet. 



Z OS 



kC/3 
H - 

K z We draw the breath on trust — all — all, my Lord, 

oS2 Living the little minutes at the will 

25 Of one given creditor, whose sudden stroke 

^-— • Signs the acquittance with the blood of life. 

% — Griselda. 

" 234 



July 13 th. 



July 14th, 



235 



_^ July 15th, 

o 

CO 

^ The lesson that thy faithful love has taught him 
■-3 He has heard ; 

a 

^ The wind of spring obeying thee hath brought him 

o 

5 At thy word. 

< — The Indian Song of Songs. 

>■ 

w The aching craze to live ends, and life glides — 

"^ Lifeless — to nameless quiet, nameless joy 

— Sinless, stirless rest. 

— The Light of Asia. 

July i6th. 

N . Banish care, 

c^ Soothe it with flutings, startle it with drums, 

I I Trick it with gold and velvets, till it glow 

1, o 

"3 Into a seeming pleasure. 

a i: 

^^ — Vernier. 

z ^ 

H ^ 

<^ Greeting fair and room to rest in, fire and water 
'A ^ from the well — 

Simple gifts — are given freely in the house where 



-^ good men dwell. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 
236 



2 



July 15th. 



July i6th. 



237 



July 17th. 

Tear and smile go wondrous well together. 

Symbolism. 

He is become 
All which was shewn, a teacher of the wise, 
Who doth deliver men and save all flesh 
By sweetest speech and pity vast as Heaven. 
— The Light of Asia. 

Self-iove slays 
Our noble brother. 

The Indian Idylls. 

July i8th. 

We are they whose torn battalions 

Trained to bleed not fly ! 
Make our agonies a triumph — 

Conquer while we die ! 

— A7-megeddon. 

Ye take no more the meaning than one takes 

Measure of ocean by the cup that slakes 

His thirst, from rillet running to the. sea. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 
238 



July 17 th. 



July i8th. 



July 19th. 

Valiant, wise, and true ; 
Victorious over sense, a worshipper ; , 
Liberal in giving, prudent, dear alike 
To peasant and to townsman : one whose joy 
Lived in the weal of all men. 

— Love and Death. 

Who practises what good he knows 
Himself a Brahmana he shows. 

— The Enchanted Lake. 



July 20th. 

The glossy golden lilies of the land 
Lost lustre in her hair; and that she owned 
The noble Norman eye — the violet eye 
Almost — so far and fine its lashes drooped. 
Wakened to purple. 

— Vernier. 

I know there might be woes to bear 
Would lay fond Patience with her face in dust. 
— The Light of ^sia. 
240 



July 191IL 



July 20th. 



241 



July 21st. 

The years of men are measured by the sun, 
And were not, until he his course begun ; 
And will not be, when his gold dial dies. 

— The Pea7-ls of the Faith. 

He who thinks a minute little, like a fool misuses more ; 
He who counts a cowry nothing, being wealthy will be 
poor. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 

July 22d. 

His anger had a savage ground-swell in it : 
He loved to take his naps, too, to the minute. 

— " The Epic of the Lion.^^ From the French of Victor 

Hugo. 

We grieve because to-day is not to-morrow, 
Nor now, eternity. 

Change only rules unchanged in this wide world? 
The priestess that one morn decks us with flowers, 
The morrow, slays us for the sacrifice. 

— Griselda. 
242 



July 21st. 



July 22d. 



243 



July 23d. 

The very bravest of the very brave. 

— First Institution of the Victoria Cross. 

Who giveth not his child in marriage 
Is blaniable ; and blamable that king 
Who weddeth not : and blamable that son 
Who, when his father dieth, guardeth not 
His mother. 

— Love and Death. 



July 24th. 

If in my grasp that dear hand I could hold 
I'd not unclasp, to have mine filled with gold ! 
— La Nencia da Barberino. 

The Princess of thy House — 

— craves to see thy face 

As the night-blowing moon-flower's swelling heart 

Pines for the moon. 

— The Light of Asia. 
244 



July 23CI. 



July 24th, 



245 



__ July 25th. 

06 

Sn" I follow virtue, and I speak plain truth! 

^ — Hero and Leauder. 

c Each hath such lordship as the loftiest ones ; 

2 Nay, for with Powers above, around, below, 

< 

X As with all flesh and Vvfhatsoever lives, 

2 Act maketh joy and woe. 

;5 — The Light of Asia. 

w 

^ Who, ere he makes a gain has spent it, 

_^_, Will repent it. 

— The Book of Good Coimsels. 

o 

CO 

^ July 26th. 

o 

Ph 

Q^ Sweet one ! don't be too proud — for the 

(^ spring tide passes like dreaming. 

H — From the Greek of Bion. 

p 

u 

'i Unto him who is thy brother, 

B. Unto kindred, friends also, 

o 

1 Orphans, suppliants, sad ones, show 

2 Gentleness and help ; to each 

-—' Speak with kind and courteous speech. 

g — The Pearls of the Faith. 

^ 246 



July 25th. 



July 26th. 



M7 



July 27th. 

Sweet one ! whether 
Early or late we see thee, 'tis as neat 
And fair and wholesome as new-bolted wheat ! 
— La Neiicia da Barberino. 

— The man 
With senses naked to the sensible 
A helpless mirror of all shows which pass 
Across his heart. 

— The Light of Asia. 



July 28th. 

When a bird's wing stirs the roses, 

When a leaf falls dead, 
Twenty times he recomposes 

The flower-seat he has spread : 
Twenty times, with anxious glances 

Seeking thee in vain, 
Sighing ever by the river, 

Krishna droops again. 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 
248 



July 27th. 



July 28th. 



■249 



(- 



July 29th. 

She looked as fresh 

As stars at twilight or as April's heaven ; 

A floweret — you had said — divinely given, 

To show on earth how God's own lilies grow. 
— " The Epic of the Lion." From the French of Victor 
Hngo. 

None strips off 
These sad delights and pleasant griefs who lacks 
Knowledge to know them snares. 

— The Light of Asia. 

July 30th. 



"■^ Look'st thou, my Star, on the stars ? Ah ! God that I 

5 were the heavens, 

^j""^ How with my millions of eyes, I would look down 

o ^ 

^ g upon thee. 

i ^ — From Plato. 

!j ^ 

0(§ If I have kept the fast, 

S w Made sacrifices, given gifts, and wrought 

7. < Service to holy men, may this black night 

—^ Be bright to those and thee. 

o — Lave and Death. 

^ 250 



July 29tlji. 



July 30th. 



251 



July 31st. 

I mind me not 
Of any boon the loving heart hath asked, 
Nor any one untimely word she spake ; 
Let it be as she prayeth. 

— Love and Death. 

Better few and chosen fighters than of shaven crowns 

a host, 
For in headlong flight confounded, with the base the 

brave are lost. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 



252 



July 31st. 



253 




mimmimitit m^il 

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AUGUST. 

Once with a landlord wondrous fine 

A weary guest I tarried, 
A golden pippin was his sign 

Upon a green branch carried. 

Mine host, he was an apple-tree, 
With whom I took niv leisure 

Fine fruit, mellowed juicily, 
He gave me of his treasure. 

There came to that same hostel gay 
Fine guests, in bright adorning 

A merry feast they made all day 
And chirped and slept till morning 

Then, to rest, my body laid 

C)n bed of crimson clover 
The landlord with his own broad shade 

Carefully spread me over. 

Him, I called to bring the score 
But '• no ! " he grandly boweth, 

Now, root and fruit, for ever more 
God bless him while he groweth. 
257 



August ist. 

'Tis little she can lose giving one glance, 
But whoso wins it how his heart doth dance. 

— La Nencia da Barberino. 

They hear the watchman's call 
Mark the slow minutes on the leaguered wall, 
The clash of quivers and the ring of spears 
Make pleasant music in a soldier's ears. 

— The Feast of Belshazzar. 



August 2d. 

May thy bliss 
Last and increase for twice five thousand years. 
— Nala and Damayanti. 

There must be refuge ! men 
Perished in winter winds till some one smote fire 
From flint stones coldly hiding what they held 
The red sparks treasured from the kindling sun. 

— The Light of Asia. 
258 



August ist. 



August 2c1. 



259 



^_ August 3d. 

d" Sweet Singer, it were good to hear 

^ Many times more the voice so true and clear, 

1 The voice that fashioned into silver speech 
^ Found a quick to the heart of each, 

^ Or flowing river-like in streams of song 

^ Bore our souls river-like its waves along 

u 

2 .......... 

a Thanks shall be paid and kind things thought of 

5 thee 

'~' Who taught how sweet a mortal voice might be. 

— Fa/e. 

^ August 4th. 

o 

•£ ' His comely form 

^, Seemed nor too tall nor short. 

S — TAe Sainfs Temptation, 

u 
I 
r. 

I Like beacon-bell on some wild island shore, 

£ Silvery ringing in the tempests roar, 

C Whose sound borne shipward through the midnight 

1h gloom 

— Tells of the path, and tmns her from her doom. 

o — The Feast of Belshazzar. 



August 3d. 



August 4th. 



261 



August 5th. 

— unto all that live 
He giveth, and He loveth those who give. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 

— who is wise feeds his sense 
No longer on false shows, fills his firm mind 
To seek not, strive not, wrong not ; bearing meek 
All ills which flow from foregone wrongfulness 
— till all the sum of ended life 
Grows pure and sinless. 

— The Light of Asia. 

August 6th. 

And fastened on her ankles the hundred silver bells, 
To whose light laugh of music the Nautch-girl darts 
and dwells. 

And all in dress a Nautch-girl, but all in heart a 

queen, 

She set her foot to stirrup with a sad and settled 

mien. 

— The Rajpoot's Wife. 

Let "us do our part to-day. 

— Armageddon. 



August 51I1. 



Auc;usT 6th. 



263 



August yth. 

When we both are very weary 

Heart of mine, 
And all before is dreary 

Heart of mine 
With never a friend to love us, 

And life's sky black above us. 
Shall we faint because they prove us, 

Heart of mine ? 

— Heaj't of Mine. 



August 8th. 

— that which did impose 
The gentle law, that each should be 
,^ The other's Heav'n and harmony. 

J I — The htdian Son^ of Sojtgs 

> ^ 

gjS Nay, but stay! it can't be really 

ii. 

§ G All a solemn sterling pound, 

O z 

2 ^ I've seen so few — I'll ring it fairly : 

——' Mammon ! there s a sound ! 

g — The Poor Scholar to his Pound Sterling. 

« 264 



iliPM 



August 7 th. 



August 8th. 



265 



August 9th. 

He loved, — the truest, newest lip 

That ever lover pressed, — 
The queen) iest mouth of all the south 

Long love for him confessed. 

— Rest. 

Within ourselves deliverance must be sought 
Each man his prison makes. 

— The Light of Asia. 



August 10th. 

A dimple in her "chin my love hath got 

Which makes her bright laugh lovelier to see. 
There is no single charm she boasteth not 

I think dame Nature framed her purposely 
So fair, so fine, so noble, and so tender 
That all the world might worship to her render. 
— La Nencia da Barberino. 
266 



August 9th. 



AuGusi loih 



26: 



August nth. 



Co " I pray thee let me see thy hand ; 

^3 I have some skill at palmistry." 

o t« 



•'Tis there, 

g g Not fair, but very frank : what canst thou read ? 

H W 

^ J "A world of meanings in its tender white ; 

53 o 

^^ And goodness, gentleness, and maidenhood, 

o w In its blue-veined beauty." 



^ '"> — Griselda. 



■^ August 12 th. 

I I burn with love ; love makes me bold to sing 

cl^ Praise of the damsel who undoes my heart; 

-a tf Each time I think a little tender thing 

o o 

^^^ About her. 

u a — La Nencia da Barber iiio. 



<K That which will not be, will not be — and what is to 

o ^ 

so be will be : 

-"7" Why not drink this easy physic, antidote of misery ? 
i. 
g — The Book of Good Counsels. 



August nth. 



August 12 th. 



269 



August 13th. 

Peace hath her battle-fields, where they who fight 
Win more than honour, vanquish more than might 
And strive a strife against a fiercer foe 
Than one who comes with battle-axe and bow 
And this was thine. 

— Congratulatory Addj'ess. 

Yet there must be aid I 
For them and me and all there must be help I 
— T/ie Light of Asia. 



August 14th. 

" For him who gave 
His life as nothing in the fight. 
Let there be made a cross of bronze 

And grave thereon my queenly crest, 
Write valour on its haughty scroll, 
And hang it on his breast." 

— The Order of Valour. 

Come forth and show thyself. 

— The Enchanted Lake. 
270 



August 13111. 



August 1 4th. 



271 



August 15 th. 

The world her match for beauty cannot bring, 
No other eyes such lovely lightnings dart. 

— La Nencia da Ba^'berino. 

Soft music to sage musing lends relief. 

— From Aristippus. 

a 

All changes; and the gods are mortal too. 

— The Birth of Death. 



August i6th. 

P'or the worst that comes to-morrow 

Will but mend. 
We can bear the deepest sorrow 

It can send : 
The sun we thought declining, 

Behind the cloud is shining, 
We can wait without repining 

For the end. 

— Heart of Mine 
272 



August i5ih. 



August i6ih. 



273 



August 17 th. 

A girl more sweet than any eyes have seen ; 
There is not found on earth so fair a maid ! 

— L(we and Death. 

Pain of pleasures not yet won, 
Pain of journeys not yet done, 
Pain of toiling without gaining, 
Pain, 'mid gladness, of still paining. 

— The Indian Song of Songs, 



August i8th. 

All the country-folk 

Went lightly to their work at sight of her, 

And all their children learned a grace by heart ; 

And said it with small lips when she went by. 

Very dear 

Was all this beauty and this gentleness 

Unto her first love and her playfellow. 

T- Venter. 
274 



August 17 th. 



August 18th. 



275 



August 19th. 

Of pink sea-coral are her dear lips dight, 
With underneath, two strings of sea-pearl plenty. 
— La Nencia da Barberino. 

— and with it this poor ring: 
Set it upon thy sword-hand, and in fight 
Be merciful and win, thinking on me. 

— King Saladin. 

The ache of greed doth never go. 

— The Enchafited Lake. 



August 20th. 



— While the east, a-glow. 
Blazed with bright spears of gold athwart the blue. 
— The Pearls of the Faith. 

But men do say that he can change and change ; 

They say he hath two faces, and two favours — 

One for his fasting-days, and one for feasts. 

Bitter and sweet. 

— Griselda. 
276 



August 19th. 



August 2othc 



277 



__, August 21st. 

But tell me — and tell true — what town is thine, 

^ And whence thy birth and name ? Thou knowest 

^ CO 

: ^ mine. 

1 c — J/ero and Leander. 

>E 
^ o 

S.2 

^^ To foeman who so dreadful, to friend what heart so 

a 3 true ? 

J u — The Rajpoofs Wife. 

^^ 

:^ Ascetics, very holy^ seeking still 

The heavenward road. 

— Nala and Damayanti. 

August 2 2d. 

"^ Sweeter than honey, and more dear to see 

o 
^ Than any loveliness on land or sea 

§ By bard or lover praised, or famed in story. 

(^ — The Pearls of the Faiih. 

d 
Q 

w The dewdrop and the star shine sisterly 

— Globing together in the common work. 

g — The Lf^ht of Asia. 

=« 278 



AjGUST 2 1 St. 



August 2 2d. 



279 



August 23 d. 

Lady of grace ! 
Iler quiet lips' light touch were like a rose leaf. 

— Griselda. 

Only one Judge is just, for only One 
Knoweth the hearts of men ; and hearts alone 
Are guilty, or are guiltless. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 

This gave me strange joy ! 

— The Saiufs Temptation. 

August 24th. 

Oh heart too hard ! what maiden would not render 

Love to a lover loving her like me .'' 
Who else would melt not, and wax honey-tender 

Seeing me suffer thus : Ah, Nencia ! see ! 
Thou knowest I am so faithful ; must it end here 

The pain which should be crowned with joy by thee. 

— La Agenda da Barberino. 

He that hath strength hath strength. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 



August 23d, 



August 24111. 



281 



SEPTEMBER. 

The harvest moon stands on the sea, 

Her golden rim's a-drip; 
She lights the sheaves on many a lea. 

The sails on many a ship : 
Glitter, sweet Queen, on silver spray 

And glimmer on the heather ; 
Right fair thy ray to shew the way 

When lovers walk together. 

The red wheat rustles, and the vines 

Are purple to the root. 
And true-love, waiting patient, wins 

Its blessed time of fruit; 
Lamp of all lovers, Lady-moon, 

Light these ripe lips together 
Which reap alone a harvest sown 

Long ere September weather. 



293 



August 27th. 

Roses grow from dew, and smiles from weeping, 
Sweetest smile is made of saddest tear-drop. 

— Symbolism. 

Siddartha answered, " Friend, that love is false 
Which clings to love for selfish sweets of love." 
— 77^1? Light of Asia. 

Be of good heart. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 

August 28th. 

Never are noble spirits 

Poor while their like survive ; 

True love has gems to render, 

And virtue wealth to give. 

Never is lost or wasted 

The goodness of the good ; 

Never against a mercy, 

Against a right, it stood ; 

And seeing this, that virtue 

Is always friend to all, 

The virtuous and true-hearted, 

Men their " protectors " call. 

— Love and Death. 
284 



AuGUsi 2 7lh, 



AuGUsr 28th. 



August 29th. 

Yet he was fair, 
Oh! very fair, — nay, almost fair enough 
To love, if only it were well to love ; 
And if to love were to be loved again, 
And if, and if, and if — 

— Griselda. 

Peace abide with me ! 

— Nala and Damayanti. 

August 30th. 

There grew, 
A lovely, stately, lustrous maid, 
Whose beauty was so rich to see 
No verse can tell it worthily. 

— The Pearls of the Faith, 

We are they who will not take 

From palace, priest, or code, 
A meaner Law than ' Brotherhood," — 

A lower Lord than God. 

^ — Armageddon. 



August 29ih. 



August 30th. 



287 



August 31st. 



jT-S Lute! breathe thy lowest in ir.y lady's ear, 

•fz Sing while she sleeps, "ah! belle dame, amiez-vous ? ' 

tSa Till dreaming still, she dream that I am here, 

> w 

<-^ And wake to find it, as my love is, true. 

« s — Sei'enade. 

§,« Dead though he be, that mortal lives 

Au Whose virtuous memory survives. 

2 — The Enchanted Lake. 



August 31st. 



269 



SEPTEMBER. 

The harvest moon stands on the sea, 

Her golden rim's a-drip ; 
She lights the sheaves on many a lea. 

The sails on many a ship : 
Glitter, sweet Queen, on silver spray 

And glimmer on the heather ; 
Right fair thy ray to shew the way 

When lovers walk together. 

The red wheat rustles, and the vines 

Are purple to the root, 
And true-love, waiting patient, wins 

Its blessed time of fruit; 
Lamp of all lovers, Lady-moon, 

Light these ripe lips together 
Which reap alone a harvest sown 

Long ere September weather. 



p September ist. 

3 

3 

3 I pray to God 

: To send you both of his good grace delights, 

I And pleasance, and fair fortunes, and long loves 

H Unto your life's end. 

I — Griselda. 

3 

3 
3 

\ -they 

\ Checking the jangling bits, and chiding down 

\ . The unfinished laugh to listen — 

; (g — King Saladin. 

I) « 
2 

"^ September 2d. 

vD Thus, as the manner of all maidens is, 

5 Her soft lips rated, though her heart was his; 

'% And he by love's quick instinct knew it so, 

^ And let her dear delicious accents flow 

5 In anger musical, for when maids scold, 

Q- With looks that pardon, lovers may be bold. 

ss 

< — Hero and Leander. 



Mar not your gifts with grudging word or will. 
— The Pearls of the Faith, 



September ist. 



September 2d. 



2d5 



__ September 3d. 

€ Speed this spell ! if it brings you, 

^ Delphis, love shall live anew : 

"^^ If in vain I watch and wait, 

« 

< Delphis, love will turn to hate ! 

o 

2 — From Theocritus. 

B 
O 

^ Wise men, holding wisdom highest, scorn delights as 
false as fair. 
Daily live they as Death's fingers twined already in 
their hair. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 

September 4th. 
-'^ For seeking still to know where thou art, Rover, 

u 

Bj We but discover that our love is there ; 

^ Far, far behind thee, we are strong to find thee, 

1 Oh then remind thee of the love left here. 

u — The Emigrant. 

>> 

i We 

Q 

2 Hate this accursed flesh which clogs the soul 
-7- That fain would rise. 

§ — The Light of Asia. 



September 3d. 



September 4th. 



297 



September 5th. 

With Him of all things secret are the keys; 
None other hath them, but He hath; and sees 

Whatever is in land, or air, or water. 
Each bloom that blows, each foam-bell on the seas. 
— The Pearls of the Faith. 

— The gods reward thy love 
Which hath such honor. 

— Nala and Damayanti. 



September 6th. 

In paths of peace and virtue 

Always the good remain; 

And sorrow shall not stay with them 

Nor long access of pain ; 

At meeting or at parting 

Joys to their bosom strike; 

For good to good is friendly, 

And virtue loves her like. 

— Lcwi' and Death. 



September 5th. 



Septemher 6th. 



299 



September 7th. 

Ah, soul! with hope and watching worn, 

Mourn not thy leafless spring! 
The joyless days of life were born 

The joyful ones to bring. 

— Wait Yet. 

Thy race counteth a hundred thrones 
From Maha Sammat, but no deed like this. 

— The Light of Asia. 



September 8th. 

And I sink my spear head bright- 
As beseemeth younger knight, 
And I kneel, but not to yield 
For I keep the tented field 
And the challenge — none so fine ! 
None a hand — like Katherine. 

— Alia Mano della Mia Donna. 

Sense-life " false in its gladness, false in sadness. 

— The Light of Asia. 
300 



September 7th. 



September 8th. 



301 



September 9th. 

Little but welcome, and a right good will 

We have to greet you with ; but these are yours, 

As free as words can make 'em. 

— Griselda. 

What good I see humbly I seek to do, 
And live obedient to the law, in trust 
That what will come, and must come, shall con- 
well. 

— The Light of Asia. 

September 10th. 

I think I never spoke a false word once 
In all my life, not even in jest ; I pray 
My truth may help to-night them, thee, and me I 

— Love and Death. 

Let each art 
Assail a fault, or help a merit grow. 
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads 
Let love through good deeds show. 

— The flight of Asia. 
302 



September 9th. 



September loth. 



303 



September nth. 

Ah ! beauty, rich and rare 
If thou be casket to a mind like thee, 
There were a piece of quaint and perfect work 
Worthy a monarch's winning. 

— Griselda. 

When he doth rise they rise again with bud and 

blossom ripe, 
To bask awhile in his warm smile, who is their lord 

and life. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 

September J2th. 

And now her singing all the feast enhances ! 
And, dancing, now all dancers she out-dances ! 
— La Nencia da Barberino. 

Lo ! I would pour my blood if it could stay 

Thy tears and win the secret of that curse 

Which makes sweet love our anguish, and which 

drives 

O'er flowers and pastures to the sacrifice. 

— The Light of Asia. 
304 



September nth. 



September 12 th. 



305 



September 13th. 

To the music the banded bees make him 

He closeth his ear ; 
In the blossoms their small horns are blowing 

The honey-song clear. 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 

Thy piety, thy purity, thy fasts, 

The largesse of thy hands, thy heart's wide love. 

Thy strength of faith, have pleased. 

— Love and Death. 



September 14th. 

Lead me with the sound of song, 
Sweep solemn music forth from balanced wings, 
And leave it cloud-like in the fluttered sky, 
That I may feel and follow. 

— The Lost Pleiad. 

Gems will no man's life sustain, 
Best of all gold is golden grain. 

— The Book of Good Counsels, 
306 



Septembkr 13th, 



Septemrer 14th, 



3(Wr 



September 15th. 

How like a heavenly angel she doth come ! 

— La Nencia da Barberino. 

Fancies fair his mind do throng, 
Like pictures palace-walls along. 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 

Paradise is for them that check their wrath, 
And pardon sins; so Allah doth with souls; 
He loveth best him who himself controls. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 

September i6th. 

Thereat, with running ditty of mingled pain and pity, 

Jymul Rao makes the six wires sigh ; 
And the girls with tearful eyes note the music's fall 
and rise, 
And the boys let the fire fade and die. 

— The Rajpoot's Wife. 

Shun drugs and drinks which work the wit abuse, 
Clear minds, clean bodies, need no Soma juice. 
— The Light of Asia, 



September i^th. 



September i6th. 



309 



__ September 17th. 

00 

^ Here the crystal sword 

'S Of Michael gave the light they journeyed through. 

H — T/ie Pearls of the Faith. 

o 

u Feed him with food of that rich fruit which grows 

^ On stems of splendid learning ; dower him still 

If) 
'— ' With gifts of eloquence to vanquish those 

Who err; — let soft persuasion change their will. 

— FrojH Theocritus. 



September i8th. 

Then bade they him 
Gaze in the stream which glided stilly, 
'Mid water-roses and white lily, 
Under those lawns and smiling skies 
That make delight in Paradise. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 

Fast to his word, unenvious, sweet of speech 
Gentle, and valiant, dutiful and pure. 

— Nala and Damayanti. 
.310 



September 17th. 



September i8th 



311 



September 19th. 

Of old, they said, the Graces were but three ; 
Yet each sweet charm of Hero, as it seemed, 
With love-spells of a hundred Graces gleamed. 
Well was she worthy to be Venus' maid ! 

— Hero and Leander. 

Is he a liberal giver? 
Loveth he virtue? Wears he noble airs? 
Goeth he like a prince, with sweet proud looks? 

— Love and Death. 

September 20th. 

All the while her head 
Droops like a snow-drop when the neighbours, mus- 
tered. 
Praise her. 

— La Nencia da Barberino. 

Many a house of life 
Hath held me — seeking ever him who v/rought 
These prisons of the senses, sorrow-fraught; 

Sore was my ceaseless strife ! 

— The Light of Asia. 
312 



September 19th. 



bEPTEMBER 20th. 



318 



__ September 21st. 

S Be master of thyself, if thou wilt be 

^ Servant of Duty. 

(^ — Love and Death. 

< 

§ After laughter ever follows tears, 

p And Pleasure ever brings his Shadow, Pain. 

cAj — November. 

o 

'A 

J Good things come not out of bad things, wisely leave 

5 a longed-for ill, 

~'~' Nectar being mixed with poison serves no purpose 

^ but to kill. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 

^ September 2 2d. 

a 

g^ By every husband nourished and protected 

^-■g Should every wife be. 

|-g — Na/a and Datnayantt. 

§^ 

^t He, for whose smile the pale-eyed scholar prayed ; 

^^ lie, for whose glance the gay mantilla stayed! 

g J — The Island of Trees. 

o w 

Q < 
O X 

X - Man hath no fate except past deeds, 

—' No Hell but what he makes. 

g — The Li^ht of Asia. 

« 3X4 



September 21st 



September 22d. 



315 



September 23d. 

Beautiful ! Thy words 
Delight me ; they are excellent, and teach 
Wisdom unto the wise, singing soft truth. 

— Love and Death, 

— the gates 
Of that bright Paradise which waits 
The wise in love. Ah, human creatures ! 
Even your phantasies are teachers. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 

September 24th. 

Love is the vow which fills my life, 
And makes my heart elate. 

— The Saint's Temptation. 

What magic taught thee more 
Of manhood 'mid thy rose -bowers and thy dreams 
Than war and chase and world's work bring to these } 

— The Light of Asia. 

Sunshine still must follow rain ! 

— The Peails of the Faith. 
316 



September 23d. 



September 24th. 



817 



September 25th. 



Sfj;* Never tires the fire of burning, 

o §< Never wearies death of slaying, 

(/TO Nor the sea of drinking rivers 

sj Nor the bright-eyed of betraying. 

^ «" — The Book of Good Counsels. 

<^ 

X w 

§0 — her babe knowing, belike, as children know, 

I More than we deem and reverencing our Lord. 
5 ^ —The Light of Asia. 



September 26th. 

I know nought of thy mind. 

— The Enchanted Lake. 

Yudhisthira knew his time was come, 
Knew that life passes and that virtue lasts, 
And put aside their love. 

— The Great Journey. 

— Sin which flows from strife, some sweet. 
Some bitter. 

— The Light of Asia. 
318 



September 2 5thc 



September 26th. 



319 



September 27th. 

Of all which live or shall live 
Upon earth's hills and fields, 
Pure hearts are the "protectors," 
For virtue saves and shields. 

— Love and Death. 

Foe is friend, and friend is foe, 
As our actions make them so. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 



September 28th. 

Nay! when one speaks of that, how deft she is! 
There's no such nimble worker in the land. 

You never saw such skill. 

— La Nencia da Barherino. 

The string o'erstretched breaks, and the music flies; 

The string o'erslack is dumb, and music dies ; 

Tune us the sitar neither low nor high. 

— The Light of Asia. 
320 



September 27th. 



September 28th. 



September 29th. 

'Tis very like thou wilt not hold me hence 
In fair remembrance. 

— Griselda. 

" Yon cloud which floats in heaven," the Prince re- 
plied, 
" Wreathed like gold cloth around your Indra's throne, 
Rose thither from the tempest-driven sea. 

— The Light of Asia. 

May you be as lucky as you hope. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 

September 30th. 

I am moved 
By those soft words ; justly their accents fell. 
And sweet and reasonable was their sense. 

— Love aitd Death. 

— that fair love which doth not feed 
On fleeting sense, that life which knows no age. 
That blessed last of deaths when Death is dead. 

— The Light of Asia. 



September 29111= 



September 30th. 



323 



' ^ ■"«ii«»*.„,„ 




OCTOBER. 

A bold brunette she is, radiant with mirth, 

Who comes a-tripping over corn-fields cropped ; 
Fruit, flowers, and full ears, from her garland dropped, 

Carpet her feet along the gladdened earth; 

For round her brow glitters a careless crown 
Of bronzed oak, and apple leaves, and vine ; 
And russet nuts and country berries twine 

About her gleaming shoulders and loose gown. 

Like grape at vintage, when its ripe blood glows. 
Glows so her sweet cheek, summer touched but fair. 
And like grape tendrils, all her wealth of hair, 

Gold on a ground of brown, nods as she goes. 



Ah! golden autumn hours — fly not so fast! 

Let the glad Lady long with us delay; 

The sunset makes the sun so wished for stay 
Of three fair sisters — loveliest and the last. 



m 



October ist. 

Well content 
Because she saw love lighted in his heart. 

— The Sainfs Tetftptation. 

Men 
Fear so to die they are afraid to fear, 
Lust so to live they dare not love their life. 

— The Light of Asia. 

So be friendship never parted, 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 



October 2d. 

O rare voice, which is a spell 
Unto all on earth who dwell ! 
O rich voice of rapturous love. 
Making melody above ! 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 

Sons are the second souls of man; 

And wives the heaven-sent friends. 

— The Enchanted Lake. 
328 



October ist. 



October 2d. 



329 



October ;^d. 

Life's thirst quenches itself 
With draughts which double thirst. 

— T/ie Light of Asia. 

There be four sins, O Sakra, grievous sins; 

The first is making suppliants despair, 

The second is to slay a nursing v.'ife, 

The third is spoiling Brahman's goods by force, 

The fourth is injuring an ancient friend. 

— The Indian Idylls. 



October 4th. 

Gentle and true, simple and kind was she, 
Noble of mien, with gracious speech to all 
And gladsome looks — a pearl of womanhood. 

— The Light of Asia. 

Sweeter I call thy strain than the tinkle of water that 

trickles, 
Tinckling, and trickling, and rippling adown the green 

shelves of the mountain. 

— From Theocritus. 
330 



October 3d. 



OCTOl^ER 4th, 



831 



c « 



October 5th. 

All my heart is fixed to think how Love 
Might save its sweetness from the slayer, Time, 
Who makes men old. 

— The Light of Asia. 

— words are as breath 
And will is all. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 

Who loveth most of saints is first. 

— The Enchanted Lake. 



October 6th. 



Her cheek was touched with tender dye 



o« Such as new rosebuds have — not white nor red, 

>^ But sunlit-snow ; in sooth you would have said 

^■^ She was all made of rose leaves, she did show 

o^ So fair and fine under her thin gown's flow, 

K Such rose-leaf arms ! such roseate shoulders ! 

Q 

g — Hero and Leander. 

"^ 332 



October 5 th. 



October 6th. 



383 



October 7 th. 

Let the wonder 
Of thy dark blessed eyes gleam on me ! come ! 
Eyes which befit thy beauteous breast and brow 
Being angelic, and an angel thou. 

— La Neiicia da Barherino. 

Master of himself, and sternly steadfast to the right- 
ful way : 

Very mindful of past service, valiant, faithful, true of 
heart. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 

October 8th. 

Her eyes 
Speak so that Krishna cannot choose but send her 
message back. 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 

Hast thou never watched, awaiting till the great man's 

door unbarred ? 
Didst thou never linger parting, saying many a sad 

last word.? 
Spak'st thou never word of folly, one light thing thou 

would'st recall ? 
Rare and noble hath thy life been ! Fair thy fortune 

did befall! 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 

334 



October 7th. 



October 8th. 



October 9th. 

He took some faded leaves and flowers up 
And idly handled them ; but while his hands 
Toyed with them, lo ! they blossomed forth again 
With lovelier life than ever. 

— Nala and Damayanti. 

Halt traveller ! Rest i' the shade ; then up and 

leave it ! 
Stay soul! take fill of love, nor losing, grieve it! 
— 77^1? Book of Good Counsels. 



October 10th. 

Lovely and gentle and wise is she, 
I love her most truly and faithfully. 

— The Fairy s Promise. 

The likeness of the evil heart, bestowing 

That men may praise, is as the thin-clad peak, 

Wherefrom the rain washes all soil for growing, 

Leaving the hard rock naked, fruitless, bleak. 

— The Peaj'ls of the Faith. 
336 



October 9th. 



October loth 



337 



October nth. 

'Tis bitter to know that we are not the best 
In the earnest strife for an honored name ; 

That a lower heart and a colder breast 

Hath more of the books than ourselves may claim. 

— Defeat. 

To the green banks where quick Payoshni runs 
Seaward between her hermitages, rich 
In fruit and roots. 

— Nala and Damaya?tti. 

October J2th. 

Measure not with words. 
Th' Immeasurable; nor sink the string of thought 
Into the Fathomless. Who asks doth err, 
Who answers, errs. Say nought ! 

— The Light of Asia. 

Which virtue of virtues is first } and which bears 
most fruit } 
To bear no malice is the best ; 
And reverence is fruitfullest. 

— lyw Enchanted Lake. 



October nth. 



October i2tb. 



339 



October 13th. 

For Love hath many wiles to heal the heart 
Of those that bleed with his unshunned dart ; 
And, of himself, will comisel oft afford 
To those of whom th' Almighty Boy is Lord. 

— Hero and Leander. 

The twitter of the sun-birds starting forth 
To find the honey ere the bees be out. 

— The Light of Asia. 



October 14th. 

Brunettes, and the Banyan's shadow, 
Well-springs, and a brick-built wall, 

Are all alike cool in the summer, 
And warm in the winter — all. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 

What good gift have my brothers, but it came 

From search and strife and loving sacrifice } 

— The Light of Asia. 
340 



October 13th. 



October 14th. 



341 



October 15th. 

Gracious and loving, dutiful and dear. 

— Love and Death. 

Splendor-throned queen ! immortal Aphrodite ! 
Daughter of Jove — Enchantress ! I implore thee 
Vex not my soul with agonies and anguish ; 
Slay me not, Goddess 

— From Sappho. 

Anger is man's unconquered foe. 

— The Enchanted Lake. 



October i6th. 

Long — long ago, but soon to grow real, 

To end, and be waking and certain and true; 

Of which dear surety murmur her lips. 
As the lips of sleepers do. 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 

By worship rightly man doth go. 

— The Enchanted Lake. 
342 



October 15 th. 



October r6th. 



343 



October 17 th. 

But thou'lt go now, — 
Take hence the tresses of thy hyacinth hair. — 
Nay, nay ! unbind them not, — 'tis over fair, — 

Keep the baud on thy brow. 

— Frotn Arisiippus. 

Her stainless cheeks have all the softened light 
Of misted marble, chiselled smooth and dainty ; 
Amid the blooms of Beauty she is Rose ; 
The wide world no such lovely wonder shews. 

- — La Nencia da Barberi7io. 

October i8th. 

Oh ! leave the withered Past, 
And turn ye to the time that liveth now. 
Will ye be looking in the fallen leaves 
For the green beauty of the parted Spring "i 
Or will ye seek in last year's naked nest 
The speckled egg it cradled ? 

— Past, Present and Fjiture. 

— gentleness is chief of virtues. 

— Nala and Damayanti. 
344 



October 17th. 



October i8th. 



345 



October 19th. 

High on the turret many an autumn eve, 
When the light, merry swallow tried his plumes 
For foreign flight, she gave him messages, — 
Fond messages of love. 

— Vernier. 

Tender and true, whose virtue was thy crown, 
Whose royalty — was royally to live. 

— Ode to the Princess Alice. 



October 20th, 

So, swimming to his love, 
He steered with face set hard where that ray shone, 
Ship — pilot — rower — merchant, all in one. 

— Hero and Leander. 

He who gave the swan her silver 
And the hawk her plumes of pride. 
And his purples to the peacock, 
— He will verily provide. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 
346 



October 19 th. 



October 20th. 



347 



_^ October 21st. 

^d 

-"Jir Ah! not to love is sad and hard, 

o ~ 

•^1 And yet to love is heavy pain ; 

gj But harder, heavier it is, 

w^ Fondly to love, and love in vain. 

o c 

<j ^ — From Anacreon. 

> . 

H 5 Green glades where pea fowl sported, crystal streams, 

J H 

g % And soaring hills whose green sides burned with blooms. 
<< — Love and Death. 



October 2 2d. 

A girlish rose with shut leaves, waiting dawn 
To open and make daylight beautiful. 

— TAe Light of Asia. 

His nobleness he had of none. War's Master taught 

him war, 
And prouder praise that Master gave than meaner lips 

can mar ; 
Gone to his grave, his duty done; if farther any seek, 
He left his life to answer them, — a soldier's, — let it 
speak. 

— In Memoriam. 
348 



October 21st. 



October 2 2d, 



349 



October 23d. 

Strong affection, stronger ever, 

Honour true and tried, 
Trust and courage failing never, 

Patience and high pride. 

— The Casket. 

Better for the proud of spirit, death, than life with 

losses told; 
Fire consents to be extinguished, but submits not to 

be cold. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 

October 24th. 

By art 
Men vanquish fortune and the mightiest odds. 

— The Night of Slaughter. 

Sorrow is 

Shadow to life, moving where life doth move; 

Not to be laid aside until one lays 

Living aside, with all its changing states. 

Birth, growth, decay, love, hatred, pleasure, pain, 

Being and doing. 

— The Light of Asia. 
350 



October 23d. 



C)CTOBER 24th. 



351 



October 25 th. 

But never once 
Saw I a girl so dear, discreet and taking 
With cheek, and neck and nape, and dimpled chin ~ 
So smooth and white, or of such perfect making : 
Her eyes ! 'tis like torchlight, when feasts begin, 
To feel their lids lift, and their glance awaking jo)'ance. 
— La Nencia da Barberino. 

Queen Venus sure hath made the youngest Grace 
Her minister this morn ! 

— Hero and Leander. 

October 26th. 

Sweet is the lower air and safe, and known 
The homely levels ; only strong ones leave 
The nest each makes his own. 

— The Light of Asia. 

Wind of the Indian stream ! 
A little — oh! a little — breathe once more 
The fragrance like his mouth's ! blow from thy shore 
A last word as he fades into a dream. 

— The hidian Song of Songs. 
352 



OCIOBER 25111. 



October 26lh. 



353 



October 27 th. 

Exceeding marvellous is this thy gift; 

I burn to know such learning, how it comes. 

— Nala and Damayanti. 

Wilt thou ride hence and let the rich world slip 
Out of thy grasp, to hold a beggar's bowl ? 

— The Light of Asia. 

All ^en scorn the soulless coward, who his manhood 
doth forget. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 

October 28th. 

So fair and graceful, of all feasts the queen. 

— La Nencia da Barberino. 

Who doth right deeds 
Is twice-born, and who doeth ill deeds vile. 

— The Light of Asia. 

Not disparagement nor slander kills the spirit of the 

brave ; 
Fling a torch down, upward ever burns the brilliant 

flame it gave. 

— The Book of Good Counsels, 

354 



October 27th, 



October 28tho 



355 



October 29th. 

They say there wander mighty powers on earth 
In strange disguises, who, divinely sprung, 
Veil themselves from us under human mould. 

— A'a/a a}id Damayatiti. 

Pity and need 
Make all flesh kin. There is no caste in blood, 
Which runneth of one hue, nor caste in tears, 
Which trickle salt with all. 

— 7 'he Lit; /if of Asia. 

October 30th. 

Sigh not " so young ! "" — " such promise ! " — " Ah ! 
^1 flower 

o = That longer life had sunned to fruit of gold." 
1 2 Be still and see ! God's year, and day, and hour, 
>^^ By lapse of mortal minutes is not told. 
i 3 — Ilicet. 

'-' u 

^^ That miracle, with eyes purple and soft 

Ho As lotus petals, that pure perfect maid, 

^-^ Whose face shed heavenly light where she did go. 

o • — Love and Death. 

« 356 



;^ 



October 29th. 



October 3otho 



357 



October 31st. 

(Halloween.) 

One morning in Medina walked our Lord 
Among the tombs: glad was the dawn, and broad 
On headstones and on footstones sunshine lay ; 
Earth seemed so fair, 'twas hard to be away. 
"O people of the graves!" Muhammad said, 
" Peace be with you ! Your caravan of dead 
Hath passed the defile, and we living ones 
Forget what men ye were, of whom the sons. 
And what your merchandise and where ye went; 
But Allah knows these things ! 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 



358 



OCTOEER ^ISt. 



359 



NOVEMBER. 

Come! in thy veil of sombre cloud, 
With mists around thee, like a shroud, 
And wan face, colored with no beam 
Of morning's glow, or evening's gleam; 
I would not see thee glad or gay, 
Dark month ! that took my love away ! 

I would not see thee otherwise. 

Grey month! that* hath the stormy skies; 

Cold month ! that creeps with wintry hands 

Freezing the waters and the lands : 

So didst thou chill my heart one day. 

Drear month ! that called my love away. 

And yet I know — behind thy mists 
The gold sun shines, love's star subsists ; 
If we could lift thy veil — maybe — 
Thy tender face were sweet to see ! 
Come as thou wilt. I say not nay. 
Sad month ! that led my love away. 



November ist. 

Dead, but on dead foreheads wearing 
Crowns that make their death a birth, 

Won by hope that scorned despairing. 
Won in heaven for wars on earth. 



All saints now, all now abiding 

In glad homes beyond the sky, 
Wearing, where salt tears were tiding 

Smiles of set felicity. 

— All Saints'' Day. 

November 2c1. 

Look! the clay dries into iron, 
But the potter moulds the clay. 

Destiny to-day is master — 
Man was master yesterday. 

— T/ie Book of Good Counsels. 

The greater beareth with the lesser love 
So it may raise it unto easier heights. 

— T/ie Light of Asia. 
364 



November ist. 



November 2d. 



365 



November 3d. 

Small service is true service when the will, 
And not the work, is rated. I had rather 
A cup of water from a willing hand. 
Than a great bowl of purple Cyprus wine 
Meted me drop by drop. 

— Griselda. 

— no Heaven too high 
For those to reach whose passions sleep subdued. 

— The Li^ht of Asia. 



November 4th. 

And if an evil nature knew 
The sacred Vedas through and through 
With all the Srutis, still must we 
Lower than honest Sudra* be. 

— The Enchanted Lake. 



All will go well. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 
*The name of the lowest caste. 36G 



November 3d. 



November 4th. 



367 



November 5th. 

As above the bloom the bee, 
When the honeyed revelry 
Is too subtle-sweet an one 
Not to hang and dally on. 

— TJic Indian Song of Songs. 

Oh ! thou wilt love her. 
Nay! I do. 

— Gr is el da. 



November 6th. 

Ifath she a charm 
To witch all hearts to her ? There's not a tongue 
That hath not learned to laud her. 

— Griselda. 

And thou too art so womanly, and resolute of will 
So eloquent of other's good, so silent, of their ill. 

— Lament. 



November 5th. 



November 6th. 



369 



November 7th. 

Whence came ye; and the people of the groves; 

The streams, the seas, the wilderness, the air ; 
I>easts, fishes, fowl ; each with their lives and loves, 

Each glad to be, each in its kind so fair ? 

— 71ie Pearls of the Faith. 

Many a knave wins fair opinions standing in fair 
company. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 



November 8th. 

Weep not for him ! 
He sits with kings and heroes who are passed 
Into the everlasting, happy home, 

Where no wars are, nor wounds, and good men dwell. 
— The Birth of Death. 

When life dies like a white flame spent. 

Death dies along with it. 

— The Liqhi of Asia. 
370 



November jih. 



November 8th. 



371 



November 9th. 

No hurt he does, kind to all living things; 
True of word is he, faithful, liberal, just; 
Steadfast and patient, temperate and pure. 

— N^ala and Damayanti 

Grief and loss come not anigh you, 
Glory guide and magnify you 

— The Book of Good Counsels, 



November 10th. 

Men 

Who love their sins and cleave to cheats of sense, 
And drink of errors from a thousand springs, 
Having no mind to see, nor strength to break 
The fleshy snare which binds them. 

— The Light of Asia. 

Courtesy may cover malice. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 
372 



November 9th. 



November loth. 



373 



November nth. 



o The still small voices of the summer day, 



<: 



The red Sirocco and the breath of May, 
2 The lingering harmony in ocean shells, 
The fairy music of the meadow bells, 



s 



<; Have words to whisper, tongues to tell his name. 

2 

g — The Feast of Belshazzar. 



I bid thee for the good of all. 

— The Birth of Death. 

November J2th. 

" All the seasons there, 
The thunder of the mournful main I hear." 

— Hero and Leander. 

Yet she is fair — oh! very, — very fair. 

— Venice. 

— all this spacious earth 

Hath not a spot more dear and hallowed. 

— The Light of Asia. 
374 



Z 



< 



November nth. 



November i2tho 



375 



November 13th, 

For self contempt is stronger than scorn, 
It tortures the spirit most wrathfully. 

— Defeat. 

Not Circe with her silver wand 

And wildest witching smile, 
Could pierce the heart with so sweet a smart 

As the girls of our own free isle. 

— The Fairest of the Fair. 



November 14th. 

Though base be the Herald, nor hinder nor let, 

For the mouth of a king is he; 
The sword may be whet and the battle set, 

But the word of his message is free. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 

"Long be thy bliss! 
And lightly fall on him the load of life ! ' 

— The Light of Asia. 
37 G 



November 13th. 



November 14th. 



377 



E 



r<; 



November 15th. 

The man with many kinsmen answers with them al 
attacks. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 

The wings of the wind have left fanning 

The palms of the glade ; 
They are dead, and the blossoms seem dying 

In the place where we played. 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 



November i6th. 

It was in April that my heart was caught, 

The day I saw thee plucking herbs and cresses — 

I spake thee fair, but thou didst answer naught 
And frowned, because folks passed, tossing thy tresses 
— La Nencia da Barbcriiio. 

Veil after veil will lift — but there must be 

Veil upon veil behind. 

— The Liiiht of Asia. 
378 



November 15th. 



November i6th. 



373 



November ijth. 

Let every soul 
Heed what it doth to-day, because to-morrow 
The same thing it shall find gone forward there 
To meet and make and judge it. 

— T^e Pearls of the Faith. 

The touch 
Flowir-soft and conquering, of a woman's hands. 

— The Light of Asia i 



November i8th. 

TS^. Thine own self is the stream for thee to make ab- 

^^ lutions in : 

oJS In self-restraint it rises pure — flows clear in tide of 

•cv truth, 

a" 

o 2" By widening banks of wisdom, in waves of peace and 

§^ ruth. 

72 Q — The Book of Good Counsels. 



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— There is no grief like ITate ! 
—7" No pains like Passions, no deceit like Sense ! 
I — The Light of Asia. 



November 17th. 



November 18th. 



381 



November 19th. 

Of the wife the lord is jewel, though no gems upon 

her beam ; 
Lacking him, she lacks adornment, howsoever her 

jewels gleam. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 

— he is to me 
Brighter than light which gleams from lotus cups, 
Divine as are the immortals, dear as breath, 
The master of my life, my pride, my jov. 

— A\ila ajid Damayaiiti. 



November 20th. 

— and earth's foundations laid 
So broad and hard, 
To be your dwelling place; 
And Heaven's star-jewelled face 
Arched for your roof-top. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 

Pleasant friends drive pain away. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 
382 



November 19th. 



November 20th. 



November 21st. 

Calmly and silent as the fair full moon, 
Comes sailing upward in the sky of June. 

— Hero and Leander. 

Heaven is there 
Where love and faith make heaven. 

— The Indian Idylls. 



November 22d. 

By their own deed, men go downward, 

Hy them men mount upward all 
Like the diggers of a well, and like the builders of 
a wall. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 

Reading, learning, praying, still 
Are outward deeds which ofttimes leave 
Barren of fruit minds that believe. 

— The Indian Idylls. 
384 



NoVEM13ER 2 I St. 



November 2 2d. 



385 



November 23CI. 

I like it well! 
Its jewels, making quaint and equal strife 
With red and blue, mock lips and eyes to life ; 

There let them ever dwell. 

— Frofu AristippHS. 

That it should be well 
For him and his, 

— Love and Death. 



November 24th. 

Horses he loved, and ofttimes would he mould 
Coursers of clay, or paint them on the wall. 

— Love and Death. 

The wisest doctors say, " In every woe 
No better physic is than wifely love." 

— Nala and Dattiayanti. 



November 23d. 



November 24th. 



387 



November 25th, 

She too, the dear and queenly, — she 
Whose perfect virtue paradise must crown. 

— llie Indian Idylls. 

Our trust thou art ! 

— The Enckanted Lake. 

A mother's heart outweighs the earth. 

— The Enchanted Lake. 



November 26th. 

Look ! the restless sea is sleeping, 
Milk-white ripple curling, creeping! 
Listen! all the winds are quiet, 
Folded up from rage and riot ! 
Only in my heart the pain 
Wakes, and will not sleep again ! 

— From Lheocritus. 



November 25th. 



November 26th.. 



November 27th. 

The greatness of this deed which helps the world ; 
For therefore ride I, not for men alone, 
I>ut for all things which, speechless, share our pain 
And have no hope, nor wit to ask for hope. 

— The Light of Asia. 

Sigh of doubt or shade of sorrow 
111 beseenieth heart or brow. 

— A// Saints'' Day. 



November 28th. 

I'll liken thee to fairy cloudland gleams 

Which mix the welkin and the world together ; 

I will compare thee unto Dian's beams 

Who round poor cabins sheds her silver weathei 
— La Nencia da Barhcrino, 



My little noble girl. 

— Grischta. 
390 



November 27th. 



November 28th. 



391 



Ph 



CO 



November 29th. 

Never all hei- life 
Wrought our sweet lady one thing wrong, I think. 

— The Great yoicrncy. 

— gallant, kind, 
Reverent, self governed, gentle, equitable, 
Modest and constant. J,ustice lives in him 
And Honor guides. 

— Love and Death. 



November 30th. 

And sing him strains which only spirits know, 
And make him captive with the silk-soft chain 

Of twinned-wings brooding round him, and bestow 
Kisses of Paradise, as pure as rain. 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 

O unknown one, who shinest like the splendour of a 



^ star, 

< 



I Peace and good will ! for due to thee my salutations 



are. 



— The Saint^s Temptation. 
392 



November 2gth. 



November 30th. 



DECEMBER. 

In spangle of frost, and stars of snow, 

Unto his end the Year doth wend ; 

And sad for some the days did go, 

And glad for some were beginning and end; 

But, sad or glad, grieve not for his death, 

Mournfully counting your measures of breath ; 

You that, before the worlds began, 

Were seed of woman and surety of man; 

You that are older than Aldebaran ! 

It was l)ut a whirl round about the sun, 

A silver dance of the planets done, 

A step in the Infinite Minuet 

AVhich the great stars pace to a music set 

By Life Immortal and Love Divine 

Which sounds, in your span of threescore and ten, 

One chord of the Harmony, fair and fine. 

Of What did make you women and men. 

In spangle of frost, and stars of snow 

Sad or glad — let the Old Year go ! 



December ist. 

For Winter came apace, with snow and frost, 
And wild storms whistling up and down the coast: 
Lashed to its depths the tortured ocean shrank, 
While the wind drove its billows, rank on rank, 
Scourging their crests milk-white ; all sailors then 
Drew up their ships upon the shore, for men 
Fear the fierce winter and the furious sea. 

— Hero and Leander. 



December 2d. 

This is that Blossom on our human tree 
Which opens once in many myriad years — 
But opened, fills the world with Wisdom's scent 
And Love's dropped honey. 

— The Light of Asm. 

Thunder for nothing, like December's cloud 

Basses unmarked ; strike hard, but speak not loud. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 
398 



December ist. 



December 2d. 



399 



December 3d. 

I culled a posy of snow-blossomed spray, 

With buds and berries gathered here and there, 

It was for thee; but thou didst turn away 
So grand ! 

— La Nencia da Barberino. 

Evil swells the debts to pay. 
Good delivers and acquits. 

— The Light of Asia. 



December 4th. 

A governed heart, thinking no thought but good, 
Makes crowded houses holy solitude. 

— The Book of Good Counsels. 

Good fellowship hath any man with him 

To whom Heaven's ear as quick inclines itself 

As doth a mother's when her babe lisps love. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 
400 



December 3d. 



December 4th. 



401 



December 5111. 

They who, as wakened eagles, soar with scorn 
From life's low vale, and wing towards the Sun- 

— The Light of Asia. 

When he spoke, those honeyed words which fell, 
Gladdened my heart and passed into my soul 
Deep — deep, till dearer seemed it than the notes 
Of Koils piping ! 

— The Sainfs Temptation. 



a December 6fli. 

= Fellow be with kindly foenicn, rather than with friends 

'\2 unkind ; 

I Friend and foeman are distinguished not by title but 

o ' by mind. 

g — The Book of Good Counsels. 



g Till life glided beguiled like a smooth stream 

u 

Banked by perpetual flowers. 

>; — The Light of Asia. 

o ■ 402 



December 5th. 



December 6th. 



403 



December 7th. 

That time doth keep for us some happy years, 
That God hath portioned us our smiles and tears, 
Thou knowest, and I know. 

— A Ma Ftittire. 

— Be friends, 
Take and give pleasure in glad company 

Each with the other, keeping happy hearts. 

— Nala and Damayanti, 



December 8th. 

My month, I trow. 
Wears the red berries, and stars of snow. 

— January. 

Loosen from thy foot the bang 

Lest its golden bell. 
With a tiny, tattling jangle. 

Any false tale tell. 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 
404 



December 7th, 



December 8th. 



405 



December 9th. 

Over the spangled grass 
Swept the swift footsteps of the lovely Light 
Turning the tears of Night to joyous gems, 
Decking the earth with radiance, 'broidering 
The sinking storm-clouds with a golden fringe. 

— The Light of Asia. 

— for all 

Our good deeds needs must be so small. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 



December 10th. 

Shall such friends ever be broken "i 

No! No! they shall stand 
Hand fast in hand. 

— The Wreck of the " Northern Belle.' 

Long tried friends are friends to cleave to. 

— The Bfiok of Good Counsels. 
406 



December 9th. 



December loth. 



407 



December nth. 

How can I live and lose him? How not go 
Whither love draws me for a soul loved so? 
How yet endure such sorrow? — or how cease? 
— llie Indian Song of Songs. 

This which thou hast done 
Shall bring thee good and bring all creatures good 
Be sure I love thee always for thy love. 

— The Light of Asia, 



December T2th. 

Oh, voice ! . . . 

As night's bird, soft to hear. 

— Ode to Florence Nightingale. 

Like some delighted bird at sudden streams 

Weary with flight o'er endless wastes of sand, 

Which laves the desert dust from neck and crest. 

— The Light of Asia. 
408 



December i i th. 



December T2th. 



409 



December 13th. 

— So wretched 
Apart from hers, — his spirit, bad and sad, 
Muses and moans, with grief's slow fire consumed 
Night time, and day time. 

— Ahjla and Damayaufi. 

The night that scents her breath so sweet 
With cool and musky odours. 

— Tlic Indian Song of Songs. 



December 14th. 

Till none can tell whether those be 

Blue lotus-blooms, seen veiledly 

Under the wave, or mirrored gems 

Reflected from the diadems 

Bound on the brows of mighty gods. 

— Tlie fndiau Song of Songs. 
410 



DECEMr.p:R 13th. 



December 14th. 



411 



December 15th. 

Kind is kin, howe'er a stranger 
— Kin unkind is stranger shown. 

— The Book of Good Cowisels. 

— all hearts did she gain 
By gentle actions, soft self-government, 
Patience and peace. 

— Love and Death. 



December i6th. 

Happily was I lodged. 
Well-tended, well-befriended in thy house. 

— Nala and Damayanti. 

Faith and Right, 
Being preserved, save all, and, being lost, 
Leave nought to save. 

— The Enchanted Lake. 
412 



December 15th. 



December i6th. 



413 



December 17th. 

I pray ye answer me, 
Is there among ye here one I have wronged ? 
I have borne rule, judging in Allah's name. 
That am a man and sinful ; have I judged 
Unrighteously, or wrathfully, or pressed 
Too hard in the amend ? 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 



December i8th. 

Like the mighty deep, 
Which sees the moon and rises, all his life 
Uprose to drink her beams. 

— The Indian Song of Songs. 

As thou art pearl of princesses, so he 
Is crown of princes. 

— N^ala and Dainayanti. 
414 



December 17 th. 



13ECEMBEK 1 8th. 



415 



December 19th. 

He entereth town by town, 
Preaching those noble ways which lead to peace, 
The hearts of men follow his path as leaves 
Troop to the wind or sheep draw after one 
Who knows the pastures. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 



December 20th. 

Lords! he hath mended fault with wisdom. 

— The Pearls of the Faith. 

Greeting as warm, and joy as deep and proud. 
As though that greeting and that joy were loud, 
And faith as firm, and love as true we bear, 
Though Past and Present mingle smile and tear. 
— Congratulatory Address, 
416 



December 19th. 



December 20th. 



417 



J, December 21st. 

1 ^ 

to •" 

%;^ There came one night, the wildest of the year, 
;z;§ When the wind smote like edge of hissing spear, 
., I And the pale breakers thundered on the beach ; 

oc'C 

vS'f^ ........... 

Zu Billow on billow rolled, the great seas roared 

.^ Furiously leaping to the clouds, which poured 

C - Sleet and brine back, with scream of winds that met 

^^ Midway from all the quarters: — Eurus set 

^M His blast against the West Wind; Notus blew 

— 1^ 

— ^ His cheeks to bursting, Boreas to subdue. 

— I/e?'o and Leaiider. 

^ December 2 2d. 

c 
a 

U 

•« — as December's moon 

°. Curbs the quick ripples into crystal swoon. — 

-S — /Zero and Leander. 

<: 

« He is not worthy of this pearl 

^ Who is not worthiest. 

^ — The Light of Asia. 

n 

s 

'^ Mine is the month that is born in the snow. 

i ' — yanuary, 

\ 418 



December 21st. 



December 2 2d 



419 



December 23d. 

What ! the tears glisten ? 
Indeed I would not wound thy little heart; 
We'll be good friends, and kiss ; but we must part. 

In sooth, — I may not listen. 

— From Aristippus. 

Life and Death are one to us. 

— Armageddon. 



i December 24th. 

•'00 ' 

" '-' 

g^_ 'Tis good that thy name springs 

-^ From two of earth's fair things — 

S z 

^^ A stately city and a soft-voiced bird; 

-• % 'Tis well that in all homes, 

K X, When thy sweet story comes, 

Bs And brave eyes fill— that pleasant sounds be heard. 

z — Ode to Florence Nightingale. 

I 420 



December 23d. 



December 24th. 



421 



December 25th. 

Yet to be courtly is not to be wise, 

Nor just, nor generous, nor valiant; 

And many goods strong gold is weak to buy. 

— Griselda. 

It was in our hearts to find thee best, 
Being dearest. 

— The Light of Asia. 



December 26th. 

She whose gentle hand I praise 
Woman is, with woman's ways. 
And I hold this gage of mine, 
None a hand — like Katharine. 

— Alia Mono dclla Mia donna. 

Bonnie he was when he fleeched my heart, — 
I hadna the heart to gie 'him the nay. 

-Effie. 



December 25th. 



December 26th. 



423 



December 27th. 

Fair, golden-haired, and glad with the joy of her youth 
and her beauty. 

— Dedication. 

The warrior-gaze, as innocent of fear 
As any maid's of shame, — which, past the guilt 
And blood and battle, sees the triumph clear. 

— The Statue of Havelock. 



December 28th. 

Command me any deed that seemeth good 
In those dear eyes and I shall straight obey. 

I know some promise thus abundantly 

Who would not spoil a pair of shoes for thee. 
— La Nencia da Barherino. 

So bold in wifely purity, 
So holy by her love, and so upheld. 

— Love and Death. 
424 



December 27th. 



December 28th. 



425 



December 29th. 

Fair, be sure, was this great lady. 

Eyes, I guess, whose blue 
Cold and calm, but beaming steady 

Tender seemed and true. 
Certes, of a noble presence. 

Dutiful and staid, 
Worthiness was glad before her — 

Worthlessness dismayed. 

— Sioanscombe Church. 



December 30th. 

It may be that they read our purpose wrongly, 
And ere they learn to know them, learn to fear 

The unresting hands, which silently, but strongly, 
Carve the broad pathway of the coming year. 

— An Apology. 

Pity makes the world 
Soft to the weak and noble for the strong. 

— The Light of Asia. 



December 29th. 



December 30th, 



427 



-^ December 31st. 

CO 

2 Some fair frozen lady 

< Whose blood is all too courtly to run quick. 

K — Gr is el da. 

u 

D 

K Chime the bells to a marriage chime, 

S Strike the strings to a birthday song, 

S For the fairest daughter of Father Time 

I For the lady who cometh to live with us long. 

'O 

-v— — yVew Year's Eve. 



428 



December 31st. 



429 



OLD YEAR. 

Leave your ingles warm and cheery, gaze into the 

midnight dreary, 
Where the old year lies a-dying, — dying in the frost 

and snow; 
Gaze, and while his heavy breathing rises like the 

mists a-wreathing ; 
While the far stars shake and shudder at the passing 

of his soul ; 
When the death draws ever nearer, and the drear night 

waxes drearer, 
Chaunt your " Miserere mei " solemnly, and toll the toll. 



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I-J 



K 



435 



Index of Names. 



M 



Index of Names. 



N 



O 



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Index of Names. 



Q 



43S 



Index of Names. 
R 



430 



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T 



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